I hear this line many times throughout each season, from someone who has been on a backstage tour, attended an open rehearsal or sat in on “tech.” It is a natural response for anyone seeing just how much work goes into producing a piece of world-class theatre, because most of the time we try not to let you see how complicated it really is. We pride ourselves on the seemingly natural way the lights dim everywhere except where we are meant to look; the way the music seems to swell out of nowhere and time itself to coincide with a striking moment; the way a performer can step off stage in one costume and appear thirty seconds later in another as though they had really had the week the play gives them to change their clothes, not the half a minute of frantic unzipping, clambering and yanking which finished a split second ago just before they walked on stage smiling. Everyone in this company works tremendously hard to make it all seem so ridiculously easy.
This might lead you to think that, if we were to let you in on what we do, some of the magic would be lost. But in fact, everyone who sits in on our work comes away not only with a deeper appreciation for what is involved, but with more excitement for, and wonder at, the work on stage. So, if you have never had a glimpse behind the curtain, make sure you go to our “Beyond the Stage” page on shawfest.com and learn how many different ways you could enhance your experience of The Shaw.
tim carroll, artistic director
FESTIVAL THEATRE Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY • ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS • SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HUMAN HEART ROYAL GEORGE THEATRE Agatha Christie’s WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION • THE SECRET GARDEN • THE ORPHAN OF CHAO • CANDIDA JACKIE MAXWELL STUDIO THEATRE THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND • SNOW IN MIDSUMMER SPIEGELTENT KABARETT • COTTON CLUB • THE ROLL OF SHAW • THE SHAW VARIETY SHOW HOLIDAY SEASON A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY
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Shaw Festival’s Theatre for All program
2024 Ensemble
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Tim Carroll EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Tim Jennings ASSOCIATE
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Kimberley Rampersad DIRECTORS Chris Abraham • Philip Akin •
Kristopher Bowman • Tim Carroll • Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster • Craig Hall • Ryan G. Hinds • Nina Lee Aquino • Alistair Newton • Kimberley Rampersad • Travis Seetoo • Severn Thompson • Jay Turvey MUSIC DIRECTORS / COMPOSERS / SOUND DESIGNERS Heidi Wai Yee
Chan • Ryan deSouza • John Gzowski • Jacob Lin • John Lott • Thomas Ryder Payne • Lyon
Smith • Jeremiah Sparks • Paul Sportelli CHOREOGRAPHY / MOVEMENT / FIGHT DIRECTION
Linda Garneau • Richard Lee • Alexis Milligan • Kimberley Rampersad • John Stead
STAGE MANAGEMENT Kelly Boudreau • Beatrice Campbell • Kevin Etherington
• Ferne Hudson • Amy Jewell • Becca
Jorgensen • Sang-Sang Lee • Carolyn
MacKenzie • Leigh McClymont • Annie
McWhinnie • Kim Charleen Smith • Allan Teichman • Dora Tomassi • Kathryn
Urbanek • Jane Vanstone Osborn THE ENSEMBLE David Adams • Matt Alfano • David Alan Anderson • Damien Atkins • Tat Austrie • Kristopher Bowman • Alana Bridgewater • Fiona Byrne • Shane Carty • Deborah Castrilli • Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster • Rais Clarke-Mendes • Nehassaiu
deGannes • Cosette Derome • Peter Fernandes • Sharry Flett • Kristi Frank • Sochi Fried • Patrick Galligan • JJ Gerber • Élodie Gillett • Martin Happer • Manami Hara • Patty Jamieson • Claire Jullien • Gryphyn Karimloo • Graeme Kitagawa • Andrew Lawrie • Eponine Lee • Richard Lee • Lawrence Libor • Allan Louis • Michael Man • Tama Martin • Allison McCaughey • Marla McLean • André Morin • Cheryl Mullings • Ryann Myers • John Ng • Ruthie Nkut • Monica Parks • Drew Plummer • Ric Reid • Jade Repeta • Tom Rooney • Kiera Sangster • Travis Seetoo • Donna Soares • Graeme Somerville • Johnathan Sousa • Jeremiah Sparks • Gabriella Sundar Singh • Sanjay Talwar • Jonathan Tan • Taurian Teelucksingh • Jacqueline Thair • Sophia Walker • Kelly Wong • Shawn Wright • Lindsay Wu
IN MEMORIAM Norman Browning • Robin Farmer • Nona Macdonald Heaslip • Marti Maraden • Sherry Nasmith-Jones • Barbara Proven • Paxton Whitehead
In the Interest of All Patrons
CELLULAR PHONES, CAMERAS AND RECORDING DEVICES During the performance, there is no photography or fi lming permitted, and cell phones must be turned off . We do invite you to take photos when the house lights are on — pre-show, at intermission and post-show. Please ensure that wristwatch/smartwatch notifications and other noisemakers are silenced during the performance.
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A LASTING LEGACY OF MEMORIES AND SUPPORT
“My journey with the Shaw Festival started many years ago with my parents. It has been one of the joys of my life to surround myself with friends, family and theatre that makes you smile, laugh and think. It is my honour to support The Shaw now and through a legacy gift in the future.”
- Harriet ‘Sis’ Bunting Weld, Governors Council and Doherty-Rand Legacy Circle Member
Photo by Peter Andrew Lusztyk.
TIM
CARROLL TIM JENNINGS Artistic Director Executive Director
KIMBERLEY RAMPERSAD, Associate Artistic Director
SNOW IN MIDSUMMER
by FRANCES YA-CHU COWHIG
based on the classical Chinese drama
The Injustice to Dou E that Moved Heaven and Earth by GUAN HANQING
with COURTNEY CH’NG LANCASTER, COSETTE DEROME, MANAMI HARA, EPONINE LEE, RICHARD LEE, MICHAEL MAN,
JOHN NG, TRAVIS SEETOO, DONNA SOARES, JONATHAN TAN, KELLY WONG and LINDSAY WU
Directed by NINA LEE AQUINO
Set designed by CAMELLIA KOO
Costumes designed by JOANNA YU
Lighting designed by MICHELLE RAMSAY
Original music and Sound designed by JOHN GZOWSKI
Snow in Midsummer was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre on February 23, 2017.
US Premiere produced by Oregon Shakespeare Company, August 2018
Produced off-Broadway by Classic Stage Company, John Doyle, Artistic Director.
Snow in Midsummer is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency.
Any video and/or audio recording, streaming or distribution of this production is strictly prohibited.
SNOW IN MIDSUMMER is generously sponsored by Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre Sponsor
Tim & Frances
Price Risk Fund
Andy Pringle Creative Reserve
FRONT COVER: PHOTO BY KEY GORDON
Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre Sponsor
SNOW IN MIDSUMMER is generously sponsored by
Tim & Frances Price Risk Fund
Andy Pringle Creative Reserve
Eponine Lee is generously supported by the RBC Foundation.
Cosette Derome and Lindsay Wu are generously supported by the Baillie Family Fund for Education.
The 2024 Christopher Newton Intern, Michael Man, is generously supported by Marilyn and Charles Baillie.
The Cast
Dou Yi COURTNEY CH’NG LANCASTER
Officer 2 / Ensemble COSETTE DEROME
Nurse Wong / Mother Cai
MANAMI HARA Fei-Fei
EPONINE LEE
Worker Huang / Ox-Head / Ensemble RICHARD LEE
Handsome Zhang MICHAEL MAN
Master Zhang / Judge Wu / Ensemble JOHN NG
Worker Fang / Officer 1 / Ensemble TRAVIS SEETOO
Tianyun Lin DONNA SOARES
Rocket Wu / Ensemble JONATHAN TAN
Doctor Lu / Worker Chen / Horse-Face / Ensemble KELLY WONG
Officer 3 / Ensemble LINDSAY WU
SETTING:
New Harmony, a remote factory town in Jiangsu Province. Present day and three years earlier.
Stage Manager JANE VANSTONE OSBORN
Assistant Stage Manager SANG-SANG LEE
Production Stage Manager KIM CHARLEEN SMITH
Assistant Director MICHAH JONDEL D e SHAZER
Assistant Set Designer AURORA JUDGE
Associate Costume Designer XIMENA PINILLA
Assistant Lighting Designer NATHAN BRUCE
Fight Designer / Fight Captain RICHARD LEE
Movement Designer KIMBERLEY RAMPERSAD
Movement Captain TRAVIS SEETOO
Magic and Illusions Creator PETER FERNANDES
Magic Captain KELLY WONG
Voice and Dialect Coach AUSAR STEWART
Special thanks to Clara Baumgart, Peyton Doer, Evelyn Gallo, Abigail Grebe. Micah Jondel DeShazer’s engagement is supported and funded through the Canada Council for the Arts
Running time is approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes including one intermission
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: MANAMI
HARA AS NURSE WONG; JONATHAN TAN AS ROCKET WU AND KELLY WONG AS DOCTOR
LU; JOHN NG AS MASTER ZHANG; EPONINE
LEE AS FEI-FEI AND DONNA SOARES AS TIANYUN LIN; DONNA SOARES AS TIANYUN
LIN AND MANAMI HARA AS MOTHER CAI; MICHAEL MAN AS HANDSOME ZHANG AND COURTNEY CH’NG LANCASTER AS DOU YI.
“Nature holds no brief for the human experiment: it must stand or fall by its results.”
bernard shaw, preface to back to methuselah
LANCASTER AS DOU YI.
OPPOSITE: EPONINE
LEE AS FEI-FEI.
COURTNEY CH’NG
The Tell-Tale Heart
by c hristine Mok
What happens when the world ends, but the world keeps revolving? When your husband dies? And your son passes? When injustice persists? What happens when the machines stop working? When work stops? When the lakes dry up? And the air fills with smoke and haze? What happens when the world as you know it ends? What happens when the world keeps ending? What happens after that?
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig explores these afterworlds in Snow in Midsummer, the final play in her China trilogy. Along with World of Extreme Happiness and King of Hell’s Palace , Snow in Midsummer is part of an extended exploration of the forces of global capital as they shape, constrain, and explode within the lives of everyday people in contemporary China. Most recently a recipient of the 2024 Whiting Award, which is given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama, Cowhig uses the theatre, a space of play and collective attention, to provide an unflinching look at the consequences of human actions and the possibilities for speaking truth to power. In Snow in Midsummer, Cowhig returns to the contemporary Chinese factory town, the setting of World of Extreme Happiness , to weave together the historical with the contemporary, the mythological with the ecological. Snow in Midsummer is a ghost story, murder mystery, detective story, post-apocalyptic, supernatural adventure — all in the pursuit of justice, hope, and future possibility.
As a ghost story, Snow in Midsummer is haunted by a past that is never really, past. One of the pasts to Cowhig’s play that ghosts it is the 13th century play by Guan Hanqing, known as Dou E Yuan (or The Injustice to Dou E and Snow in Midsummer ). Snow in Midsummer is an adaptation of a 13th century play. It is the first commission of the rsc ’s Chinese Translations Project, a cultural-exchange program that brings Chinese classics to a new audience. The Chinese Translations Project draws a lineage between Shakespeare and works written in China that were performed or adapted within Shakespeare’s lifetime (1564–1616) in the Yuan, Song, Tang, and Ming dynasties — exceptionally rich periods in Chinese artistic and cultural history. With research on more than 45 classical Chinese titles nominated by scholars, academics, theatre-makers, playwrights and translators from across the world, the rsc matched Cowhig with translator Gigi Chang.
When Cowhig sifted through the stories of several golden age Chinese plays, the story of Dou E, a woman executed for a crime she did not commit, whose ghost returns to seek justice, caught her eye. Cowhig then built her adaptation from Chang’s literal translation of the original play, keeping some elements and radically revising others. The central love story is no longer between Dou E and her dead husband. Cowhig shifts our attention to the love between two men, Rocket and Handsome (who gets all of Dou E’s most romantic lines), between mothers and daughters, and between sisters. Guan Hanqing’s Dou E ruffles some papers to get her father’s attention so that he might right the wrongs of the past; Cowhig’s Dou Yi takes vengeance into her own hands, quite literally.
Cowhig also built her adaptation from conversations and interviews with British East Asian actors because another past haunts Cowhig’s Snow in Midsummer, the historic underrepresentation of Asian actors on British and American stages, in addition to political censorship. Cowhig situates herself as a writer in an interview from 2014 in the following ways: “because Chinese writers who try to write about social or political truths are often punished by the government, because there aren’t many plays about contemporary China, and because there aren’t very meaty roles for Asian actors in the us or the uk , by writing a few plays on China, I can address multiple gaps’ at once.”
For Snow in Midsummer, Cowhig traversed one of these gaps by undertaking a listening tour in London, in the aftermath of rsc ’s 2012–2013 production of the classical Chinese play, The Orphan of Zhao, which elicited criticism over its casting of only three actors of East Asian descent to play a servant and two dogs. In her listening tour, she was interested not just in how British East Asian actors felt about representation, she wanted to hear from them the kinds of roles they dreamed for themselves, using their wish list to populate the world of Snow in Midsummer. For Cowhig, there is a direct connection between writing about China from outside, as a member of the diaspora, and writing dream roles for actors of Asian descent. Though the characters are Chinese, the actors are Asian North American and British East Asian.
For the Shaw Festival’s production of Snow in Midsummer, an even more recent past may haunt the stage. The play’s stage directions name the time and place of the play as New Harmony, a remote factory town in Jiangsu Province. Present day and three years earlier.” From the vantage point of today, “three years earlier” was still the early days of the global outbreak of coronavirus, when life and work looked very different. The play’s us and “ ‘
uk premieres were before the pandemic, in 2017 at Stratford-upon-Avon, produced by the rsc , and in 2018 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. The play’s then and now, now feel very different. We will never look at a face mask the same way. We understand the end of work as we know it differently. We hope we understand communal care differently. Some of us worked from home, whereas others were essential workers, often without adequate protections. Cars stayed off highways in garages, airplanes were left in hangers, and ships remained docked. Scientists found that, in some places, air and water quality improved. On the one hand, it seemed as if humandisturbed habitats began to recover. On the other, the pandemic was not a disruption but rather part of climate change’s disastrous effects, just like wildfires, heat waves, floods, and storms.
A signal feature of Guan Hanqing’s play that remains in Cowhig’s is the natural world’s attunement to the injustices done to Dou Yi. The natural world bears witness to Dou Yi’s innocence through the following anomalies: first snow falls in midsummer, then three years of drought, and finally a dust storm and plague of locusts that halts New Harmony’s factories, transforming the engine of economic growth into “ten thousand tons of broken, dust and locust clogged machinery.” Many of the characters ignore the world, even as it speaks out in snow, haze, and locusts. These characters may refuse to see, but we, as the audience, cannot ignore the effects of injustice as it unfolds in front of us on the stage. In unravelling a mystery, Snow in Midsummer, at its heart, is not just a whodunnit but ponders a telling of how and why. With Tianyun Lin, we embark on a journey of discovery, driven by vengeance, with the promise of justice, so that rather than the past continuing to haunt the present, we can better build a future of never again.
CHRISTINE MOK, AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND, RECEIVED HER PHD IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES FROM BROWN UNIVERSITY, AND HOLDS AN MFA IN DRAMATURGY AND DRAMATIC CRITICISM FROM THE YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA. SHE WAS THE DRAMATURG FOR THE US PREMIERE OF SNOW IN MIDSUMMER AT THE OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL AND IS THE CO-EDITOR WITH JOSHUA TAKANO CHAMBERS-LETSON TO FRANCES YA-CHU COWHIG’S CHINA TRILOGY: THREE PARABLES OF GLOBAL CAPITAL (2021). JONATHAN TAN AS ROCKET WU AND MICHAEL MAN AS HANDSOME ZHANG.
AS TIANYUN LIN AND COURTNEY CH’NG LANCASTER AS DOU YI; THE ENSEMBLE; JONATHAN TAN AS ROCKET WU; MICHAEL MAN AS HANDSOME ZHANG WITH KELLY WONG AS WORKER CHEN, RICHARD LEE AS WORKER HUANG AND TRAVIS SEETOO AS WORKER FANG.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: DONNA SOARES
Production History
Snow in Midsummer was commissioned and produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company as the first of the rsc ’s Chinese Translations Project, a cultural exchange program to adapt Chinese plays that were written during Shakespeare’s time (1564–1616). In 2012, international headlines were made when their adaptation of The Orphan of Zhao employed only three actors of East Asian descent out of seven cast members. The British East Asian acting community reacted swiftly, demanding change that led to a complete overhaul of the company’s Chinese Translations project. Then, in 2015, the rsc contacted Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig about a new adaptation for their current project. It premiered in February 2017 at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
In 2018, the us premiere was held at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The first New York production occurred in June 2022 at the Classical Stage Company, in part to respond to increasing violence against the East Asian community since the start of the covid -19 pandemic.
A Malaysian, Singaporean and Taiwanese film adaptation of some themes found in Snow in Midsummer was selected to open the 2023 Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei, a parallel section of the Venice International Film Festival, where it had its global premiere.
KATIE LEUNG AS DOU YI, ROYAL SHAKESPEARE
BY IKIN YUM);
PHAM AS FEI-FEI
JESSICA KO AS DOU
The Golden Age of Chinese Drama
by c hristine Mok
Snow in Midsummer is a contemporary adaptation of a canonical Chinese drama, Dou E Yuan a beloved play from the Yuan dynasty. Though millennia of recorded theatre history prior to the Yuan dynasty exists — with Chinese actors, even today, tracing their craft to the famous Pear Orchard Conservatory established during the Tang dynasty (618–907) — Yuan drama is considered the golden age of Chinese theatre. Within the span of a century, some of the greatest works of classical Chinese drama were written and produced. Today, more than 160 plays, known as zaju , from this era are extant. Zaju flourished under Mongolian rule and especially during the reign of Kublai Khan (1260–1294), becoming the dominant dramatic form, thus taking on the name of the dynasty, Yuan drama.
When Mongols invaded and conquered China, they unified north and south, connecting people and cultures through trade and empire across Asia, Eurasia and Europe. The Yuan dynasty was an era of unprecedented cultural and artistic advances in a variety of fields, including poetry, theatre, painting, mathematics and medicine. While many enjoyed peace and prosperity, educated Han Chinese elite found their social and political power greatly diminished under the Mongols. The civil-service examinations that had determined court positions and organized bureaucratic imperial life were abolished. Displaced Confucian scholar-officials turned to the arts, especially poetry and playwriting, to make a living and seek glory.
With the Confucian literati joining theatrical troupes as playwrights, the plays fused a new narrative tradition with older musical performance practices to create Yuan drama: popular variety plays with songs, dance, monologues, farce and probably acrobatics. Yuan playwrights found inspiration in literary tales, histories from earlier dynasties, and popular tales passed through oral traditions that imparted Confucian values. Yuan drama mixed both high and low culture, reflecting the literary aspirations of their authors, without neglecting the entertaining high jinks that their non-elite audiences demanded. The plays are full of romance, adventure and the supernatural. Enough plays deal with the criminal justice system to suggest that the exiled scholar-playwrights wove critiques of their diminished experience under Mongolian rule into plays that grappled with morality and injustice.
The Authors
GUAN HANQING (c.1245–c.1322) is the best known of all the dramatists working during the Golden Age of Chinese Drama. He is the first playwright listed in A Register of Ghosts , a record of poets and playwrights, published in 1330. He was a prolific writer, playing a large role in theatrical innovation and the cultural boom of a decisive historical age. Guan is often acknowledged in Western texts as “China’s Shakespeare.” Considering that Guan preceded Shakespeare by more than 300 years, Shakespeare may be Brittania’s Guan Hanqing. Either trained for a life in medicine or a practicing court physician, he lived in Yen-Ching, the site of modern-day Beijing. He began writing plays in 1260 and wrote more than 60, 18 of which have survived. These extant works are now exemplary forms of classical Chinese drama, with a robust history of revival and adaption. His best-known play is Dou E Yuan , or The Injustice to Dou E that Moved Heaven and Earth , the source play for Cowhig’s Snow in Midsummer
FRANCES YA-CHU COWHIG is an internationally produced playwright known for The China Plays: Three Parables of Global Capital . The plays in the trilogy, The World of Extreme Happiness , The King of Hell’s Palace , and Snow in Midsummer, have been produced in the uk at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hampstead Theatre and the National Theatre, and in the us at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theater Club, Classic Stage and Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. Her recent audio musical Last Words of Uncle Dirt was produced by Playwrights Horizons (nyc ) and is a collaboration with composer Michael Roth.
Frances was born in Philadelphia, and raised in Northern Virginia, Okinawa, Taipei and Beijing. She received an M fa in Writing from the James A. Michener Center for Writers at ut Austin, a ba in Sociology from Brown University, and a certificate in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.
Her body of work has been honoured with the Wasserstein Prize, the Yale Drama Series Award (selected by David Hare), an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the Keene Prize for Literature, and a United States Artist Fellowship. She has taught at Bennington College and was formerly an Associate Professor of Drama at uc Santa Barbara, where she mentored undergraduate playwrights and directed the New Works Lab. Frances lives in Southern Appalachia, where she enjoys growing vegetables and dramatic worlds. She is currently working on a middle-grade fantasy trilogy, an opera libretto, and new play commissions for Yale Rep and the Perelman Center.
For full biographical information about our cast and creative team, please visit shawfest.com/ensemble.
NINA LEE AQUINO Director
SHAW 2024: Director for Snow in Midsummer ; 1st season. I was born in the Philippines and, as a diplomat’s child, grew up in various places, including Texas and Toronto. Now, I call Ottawa my home. My first theatre experience was also my professional debut, playing Annie in the musical Annie After an early retirement from musical theatre, mentors like Ric Knowles, Judith Thompson, Brian Quirt, Allen MacInnis, and Yvette Nolan inspired me to shift my focus to directing, dramaturgy, and artistic leadership. You might recognize my work from Factory Theatre, Cahoots Theatre, and fu- gen Asian Canadian Theatre. Recently, my directorial venture brought me back to my musical roots with Prison Dancer, Canada’s first Filipino-Canadian musical, which premiered at the Citadel Theatre and toured to the National Arts Centre, where I now serve as Artistic Director of English Theatre. I’m thrilled to embark on my first season with you at The Shaw.
CAMELLIA KOO Set Designer
SHAW 2024: Set designer for Snow in Midsummer. One of my grandfathers, Ting Koo, founded the Peking Opera Group of Toronto. As a kid, instead of watching the shows, I was always running around backstage with my cousins, not really paying attention to the crew setting up and the performers applying their face make-up. My other grandfather, Dragon Lee, was also sometimes one of those performers playing Guang Gung, the god with the fierce red face. Years later, I still get such a thrill hanging out backstage and watching the show from the wings whenever I’m allowed to. I love watching the backstage hubbub and organized chaos of scene changes and costume quick-changes, because it always reminds me of my grandfathers.
JOANNA YU 余頌恩 Costume Designer
SHAW 2024: Costume designer for Snow in Midsummer. I have spent my life being asked the question “where are you from?” In most cases the folks who ask simply want to know if they’re right and they move on; but you’re reading this programme, so here goes; I am from the many who choose to immigrate, seeking a better life than what our homeland might offer. I am Canadian, born in another colonized land to parents of amazing imagination, determination and heart. I am from a small suburb where I learned that embracing the cultures of the people around you is vital. And now, I also think I am from the artists I get to spend time in the room with — countless hours talking about plays and creating worlds from them. I am from this art form that allows me a place to create and imagine.
NINA LEE AQUINO
CAMELLIA KOO
JOANNA YU
MICHELLE RAMSAY
Lighting Designer
SHAW 2024: Lighting designer for Snow in Midsummer. I was born and raised in Prince George, bc . My first theatre experience is not one that I remember, but rather a story that my family tells. When I was five, we were visiting my mother’s family in New York, and they took me to see Peter Pan on Broadway. As it finished, I turned to my dad and asked if we could see another “movie.” As children, my siblings and friends and I would put on plays for our families around holiday time and I would do a lot of the organizing, including lighting them with whatever lamps I found around the house. The adults in the house were always very supportive despite the (probably questionable) quality. My dorky lighting ways were solidified when I picked the colour of my high-school graduation dress from a gel swatch book.
JOHN GZOWSKI
Original Music and Sound Designer
SHAW 2024: Original music and sound designer for Snow in Midsummer, sound designer for Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart . Born and raised in Toronto, I originally planned to be a guitarist, but kept getting asked to write music for shows, which I fortunately learned is just as fun and interesting. My pandemic pivot has been going back for my master’s in composition, studying the application of the predictive mind model to music and creativity, which has now progressed to a PhD. Here at The Shaw, Mahabharata , The Divine , Dracula and The Hound of the Baskervilles are a few shows that I’ve worked on that have really made me proud.
SHAW 202: Snow in Midsummer and The Orphan of Chao ; 1st season. I’m an Actor, Fight Director, Film Maker, Educator, Producer and Sound Designer. My first memorable experience in theatre was watching a production of The Mousetrap I loved how I felt so seen and heard as an audience member, especially with the plea at the end from the cast to keep the ending of the play a secret. It sparked a love of theatre that could seek to break walls and connect with audiences beyond the story. This led to the creation of one of my most favourite theatre pieces, Monday Nights — an interactive and immersive basketball play that I co-created with members of The 6th Man Theatre Collective. Monday Nights was a part of the 2019 Luminato Festival, which epically coincided with the championship of the Toronto Raptors.
RICHARD LEE
MANAMI HARA
MICHELLE RAMSAY
COURTNEY CH’NG LANCASTER Dou Yi
SHAW 2024: Appearing in Snow in Midsummer, director of The Orphan of Chao ; 2nd season. I grew up in the country outside of Antigonish, Nova Scotia — fields, hills, evergreens, dirt roads. I was a weird kid, child of immigrants, bookish, a bit grubby. As a kid, I saw shows at Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre — pure wonder! Later, I performed with the local community theatre and found my people and my love for this art form and the empathy it inspires. I’ve now been making my living in the theatre for nearly 20 years. As an actor, I’ve performed at Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, Tarragon, the Citadel — all over. In recent years, I’ve been directing and teaching more. It’s nice to be back at The Shaw — I was in my first season in 2019 and was pregnant with my son at the time. A good place to gestate!
COSETTE DEROME
Officer 2 / Ensemble
SHAW 2024: Snow in Midsummer and The Shaw Variety Show ; 1st season. Acting with The Shaw has always been a dream of mine, but I’d let that dream fall to the wayside. Film and tv work, childcare, other projects kept coming up. Then last fall I was hosing chicken poop off my bee frames with the indomitable Jenny Wright, and I mentioned how much I’d enjoyed seeing her in last year’s The Game of Love and Chance and that I wished I could do something like that. She said, basically, “Ya dummy, go send in your stuff.” I did. Thanks for the kick in the pants, Jenny. I like it here.
MANAMI HARA Nurse Wong / Mother Cai
SHAW 2024: Snow in Midsummer and The Shaw Variety Show ; 1st season. I’m delighted to debut at The Shaw and share a little bit about myself with you. At 18, I moved from Tokyo, Japan alone to pursue my dream of becoming a theatre artist in North America. I settled my roots in Vancouver, bc and graduated from Studio 58 at Langara College. Despite being a young Asian female actor, I was given incredible opportunities to play roles such as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at Carousel Theatre for Young Audiences and Miranda in Tempest at Globe Theatre in Regina to kick off my career. Since then, I’ve been growing my artistry as an actor, playwright, instructor, interpreter/translator, dramaturge and director for over three decades.
EPONINE LEE Fei-Fei
SHAW 2024: Snow in Midsummer and The Orphan of Chao ; 1st season. I’m incredibly honoured to be in this year’s Shaw Festival season. I was born in Toronto and spent much of my childhood attending my parents’ workshops, rehearsals, and closing night celebrations, creating a uniquely profound relationship with theatre. I began performing when I was offered to be in David Yee’s carried away on the crest of a wave at Tarragon in 2013. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside many talented and inspiring theatre artists that have helped me grow as a performer. My favourite comment from an audience member was when I was in Stratford Festival’s R+J and heard it was a little girl’s first time seeing a play with a lead that looked like her. When she imagines Juliet now, she’ll think of my version of the character: a fiercely independent Asian Juliet.
COURTNEY
CH’NG LANCASTER
EPONINE LEE
COSETTE DEROME
JOHN GZOWSKI
MICHAEL MAN Handsome Zhang
SHAW 2024: Snow in Midsummer and Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery of the Human Heart ; Playwright, The Orphan of Chao ; 4th season. I’m inspired by those who act in the face of uncertainty — in situations big and small — leaders of social change, or children learning fearlessly. My nephew, who turns two this year, was helping his mother with yard work discarding weeds into paper bags. These bags are taller than he is, which is adorable, but I digress … He reaches but misses the opening. “Uh oh” says he, sans judgement or frustration. With some maternal encouragement, he picks up the dandelions, tries a few more times before successfully throwing it out. I admire this “keep on keeping on” attitude, not knowing how things turn out so long as we try our best. I hope as creators and consumers of arts and culture, we are contributing, in some ways, to a better world for the generations to come.
JOHN NG
Master Zhang / Judge Wu / Ensemble
SHAW 2024: Snow in Midsummer and The Orphan of Cha o; 1st season. Originally from Hong Kong, and after a brief period living in the Bahamas, I grew up and settled in Ottawa which remains, to this day, my home. My initial introduction to theatre came early thanks to my mother, who was a huge fan of Cantonese opera and would often take us to special live performances; I was mesmerized by the pageantry and spectacle witnessing it all. Years later, I would experience that same magic from the perspective onstage for the first time, as an ensemble member in a university production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle . The director of the show, Lib Spry, gave me the kickstart and encouragement to take this craft further from that point. And now, here we are, I am honoured to be making my debut at the Shaw Festival this season.
TRAVIS SEETOO
Worker Fang / Officer 1 / Ensemble SHAW 2024: appearing in Snow in Midsummer, appearing in and music director for The Shaw Variety Show and creator of The Roll of Shaw ; 11th season. When I was in grade 7, I was approached by some classmates to play a game called Dungeons & Dragons . “It’s kind of like being in Lord of the Rings” they said. So, every recess we played D&D. We went on adventures, performed heroics and fought dragons in our imaginations. I loved creating characters and telling stories with my friends, which is what I luckily ended up doing for a living.
JONATHAN TAN
MICHAEL MAN
DONNA SOARES Tianyun Lin
SHAW 2024: Snow in Midsummer and The Orphan of Chao ; 4th season. I am from Vancouver: the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the x ʷ m əθ k ʷə y ̓ə m (Musqueam), S k wx wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel íl witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. As I write this, I have yet to begin rehearsals for either of my shows. I wonder. What will the plays, characters, and collaborators that I encounter this season teach me? What will they ask of me? What aspects of my self, my history, my ancestry, and my imagination will I discover and reveal? I don’t have the answers to these questions and may not find them until the end of the season. Or perhaps after. And as I delve into this murkiness along with my two directors, I want to recognize two directors/leaders who saw something in me when I was a baby actor, supporting me in my growth: Maiko Yamamoto and Sherry J. Yoon. Thank you.
JONATHAN TAN Rocket Wu / Ensemble
SHAW 2024: Snow in Midsummer and The Orphan of Chao ; 14th season. In my first year of university, there was a serendipitous shortage of second basses — serendipitous because a baritone who drinks like a frosh wakes up with solid low-Cs. Those few extra notes got me into some choirs that — to be honest — were too good for my very green self, the most special of which was a group called Amabile. With them, I saw Europe, sang with symphonies, recorded albums, even performed for The Queen, all as an anonymous second bass amongst dozens — sometime hundreds — of singers. We made music out of nothing more than our bodies in space, weaving single voices into a harmonic whole so much greater than the sum of its parts. At this intersection of math and magic, there is no I — just us, the moment, and music. Long live the humble choir.
KELLY WONG
Doctor Lu / Worker Chen / Horse-Face / Ensemble
SHAW 2024: Snow in Midsummer and Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart ; 16th season. For my tenth birthday, my parents took me to see a matinee of The Phantom of the Opera I vividly remember my excitement as I watched those actors bring that story to life. That was the precise moment I fell in love with theatre. For months afterwards, I couldn’t stop thinking about the show. I obsessed over the cast recording, re-enacting all the parts on my own … hoping, wishing that one day I’d become an actor. My ten-year-old self wouldn’t have believed that this is how things would turn out. Today, I get to dress up and make believe. I am a professional pretender.
JOHN NG
KELLY WONG
DONNA SOARES
TRAVIS SEETOO
LINDSAY WU Officer 3 / Ensemble
SHAW 2024: Snow in Midsummer and The Orphan of Chao ; 2nd season. Originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, I pursued my acting dreams in Ontario. Now based in the gta , I’ve been captivated by storytelling since stepping on stage in the third grade. Connecting with audiences and sharing narratives fuel my passion. Every performance is a chance to sync heartbeats and create lasting connections. I am forever grateful for the opportunity to live my dream daily.
JANE VANSTONE OSBORN Stage Manager
SHAW 2024: Stage manager for Snow in Midsummer, The Shaw Variety Show and The Roll of Shaw ; 7th season. The first show I saw was at ypt Colonnade in Toronto. My first as M gig was Grease at York University. What a strange job — arrive early, sweep the floor, hold the curtain for a car, and stay late. I was hooked. I enjoy the collaborative, creative, puzzle-solving nature of this work. I love watching ideas come to life and hearing the audience take part. One of my favourite shows was Up to Low at Ottawa’s Arts Court, where I sat amongst the audience and could feel their responses as I whispered cues to the crew.
SANG-SANG LEE Assistant Stage Manager
SHAW 2024: Assistant stage manager for Snow in Midsummer and Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart ; 2nd season. I was born and raised in Amiskwaciwâskahikan
), also known as Edmonton, in Treaty 6 Territory and the Métis Nation of Alberta Region 4. It’s the traditional land of many Indigenous peoples, including the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Nakota Sioux and Métis. I acknowledge those who came before us, those who have stewarded this land since time immemorial so that we may have a life here. It’s a reminder that the responsibility of stewardship has been passed to each of us, and that I must do more to care for this land so that future generations can enjoy the beauty and bounty that we have benefitted from. I’m missing those amazing, long summer days where it seems like you have all the time in the world and the sun barely sets. I still call Edmonton home.
SANG-SANG LEE
LINDSAY WU
JANE VANSTONE OSBORN
Shaw Staff
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Artistic Director
TIM CARROLL
Executive Director
TIM JENNINGS
Executive Assistant (from April)
PETRICE CUSTANCE
Interim Executive Assistant (to April)
PATTY JAMIESON CREATIVE MANAGEMENT
Associate Artistic Director
KIMBERLEY RAMPERSAD
Planning Director
JEFF CUMMINGS
Producer
NATALIE ACKERS
Director, Community Engagement and Outreach
PRAGNA DESAI
Senior Administrator, Creative Management
SARAH PHILLIPS
Music Director
PAUL SPORTELLI
Associate Music Director / Company Pianist
RYAN deSOUZA
Editor – 2024
House Programmes
BOB HETHERINGTON
Assistant Producer
THOM MARRIOTT
Ensemble and Housing Liaison
SUZIN SCHIFF
THE SLAIGHT FAMILY ACADEMY
Voice and Dialect Coaches
JEFFREY SIMLETT
AUSAR STEWART
Alexander Technique
VICTORIA HEART
Singing Coaches
VAN ABRAHAMS
PATRICK BOWMAN
EILEEN SMITH
Movement Coach
ALEXIS MILLIGAN
Education Co-ordinators
WARREN BAIN
MATT RATELLE
Education Assistants
JESS GORMAN
NINA TAYLOR
Metcalf Music Intern
ATHENA SO
Neil Munro Intern Directors
PETER FERNANDES
TARA ROSLING
PRODUCTION
Production Director
DON FINLAYSON
Production Administrator
MARGARET FERENCZ
Assistant Production Administrator
ALISON PETTEN
Technical Directors
MARK CALLAN
ANRITA PETRAROIA
JASON WOODGATE
Assistant Technical Director – Logistics
DAN GALLO
Design
Design Co-ordinator
LAUREN REBELO
Design Assistants
ANGEL EVERETT
AURORA JUDGE
ARIANNA MOODIE
XIMENA PINILLA
ALEX SOBSCHAK
ROSE TAVORMINA
SARAH YUEN
Design Mentor
JUDITH BOWDEN
Lighting Design Director
KEVIN LAMOTTE
Assistant Lighting Designers
THEO BELC
NATHAN BRUCE
JEFF PYBUS
Assistant Sound Designer
BEX TRALLI
Stage Management
Production Stage Manager
KIM CHARLEEN SMITH
PSM Consultant
MEREDITH MACDONALD
Stage Managers
BEATRICE CAMPBELL
AMY JEWELL
CAROLYN MACKENZIE
LEIGH McCLYMONT
ALLAN TEICHMAN
DORA TOMASSI
JANE VANSTONE OSBORN
Assistant Stage Managers
KELLY BOUDREAU
KEVIN ETHERINGTON
FERNE HUDSON
BECCA JORGENSEN
SANG-SANG LEE
ANNIE McWHINNIE
KATHRYN URBANEK
Apprentice Stage Managers
KAITLYN ALDERSON
GEORGIA HOLLAND
Properties
Head of Properties
ANNA-MARIE BAUMGART
Assistant Head of Properties
ALEXA MacKENZIE
Properties Buyer
BRENT HICKEY
Warehouse/Driver
BLAKE WILSON
Properties Builder 2
SAMANTHA FELSBOURG
JASON JENNINGS
MATT LECKIE
JENNA PURNELL
WAYNE REIERSON
ANDREA WILLETTE
Properties Builder 1
DANA CORNELIUS
EMILY DYCK
RACHELLE GARRETT
MAC HILLIER
AMY WILLIS
Wardrobe
Head of Wardrobe
JASON BENDIG
Associate Head of Wardrobe
JANET ELLIS
Wardrobe Co-ordinator
KENDRA COOPER
Wardrobe Apprentice/Dyer and Fabric Arts Apprentice
EVELYN LOCKWOOD
Wardrobe Apprentice
KRISTINA OJAPERV
Buyer
MAUREEN GURNEY
Milliner
MARGIE BERGGREN
Millinery Crafts
TRULY CARMICHAEL
Accessories
MICHELLE HARRISSON
Boots/Shoes
STACEY BONAR
Boots/Shoes Apprentice
KATE STEINBACH
Cutters
PAT GLINKA
CHERYL HUGHES
MORGAN MACKINTOSH
LISE St-GERMAIN
Junior Cutter
ERIN HUITEMA
Tailors
MONIQUE MacNEILL
DENIS PIZZACALLA
First Hands
AUDREY-JOY BERGSMA
PILLING
REBECCA BOYD
DARLENE HENDRY
ANDREA MacKENZIE
KATHY SCOZZAFAVA
VERONICA WATKINS
Sewers
CASEY BROWN
CAROL FARNAN
DEANNA HERBERT
SILKE JABLONKA
CHRYS KALOUDIS
SANDRA LeROSE
MIRANDA LUMLEY
ALLISON MacISAAC
KAYLEN McCORMACK
KAREN MERRIAM
DARLENE NASZADOS
LILLIAN PASQUA
KATE STEINBACH
EMMA TANSLEY
NANCY THIESSEN
KATHLEEN VAN DYKE
MADISON WATSON
HAILEE WHITE
Scenic Art
Head of Scenic Art
JANA BERGSMA
Assistant Head of Scenic Art
ANDREA HARRINGTON
Scenic Artists
KIM BROWN
REBECCA LEE
JESSICA MacDUFF
Assistant Scenic Artist
MATHILDA PICH
Scenic Construction
Head of Scenic Construction
LESSLIE TUNMER
Assistant Head of Scenic
Construction
MYRON JURYCHUK
Trades
ROB BROPHY
GEORGE GALANIS
KEVIN HARTE
MICHAEL HASLEHURST
ROB MAZZA
MIKE PALMIERI
Shop Administrator
SHANNON ENGEMANN
Construction Electrics
Head of Construction Electrics
JOHN VANIDOUR
Assistant Head of Construction Electrics
ANTHONY BLASCHUK, JR
Audio
Head of Audio
COREY MACFADYEN
Assistant Head of Audio
KAITLYN MacKINNON
Festival Audio Operator
FRED GABRSEK
Royal George Audio Operator
WAYNE BERGE
Studio Audio Operator
TREVOR HUGHES
Festival RF Tech 2/2nd Royal
George Audio Operator
JULIAN MAINPRIZE
3rd Royal George Audio
Operator
ANTHONY MANCINI
Outdoor Audio Operator
PAUL MOCSAN
Electrics
Head of Electrics
STUART WILLIAMSON
Royal George Electrician
GEOFF INWOOD
Studio Electrician
MEL THIVIERGE
Video Tech/Deck LX
PRATIK TAYADE
Festival Deck Electrician
PAUL TOYNE
1st Spot Operator
JEAN ST-ONGE
2nd Spot Operator
LAURIE PENNER
Festival Changeover
Electrician
SARAH PENNER
Stage Crew
Head Stage Carpenter
JEFF BINGLEY
Festival Stage Carpenter
DAVID SCHILZ
Royal George Stage Carpenter
ARCHIE MacKENZIE
Royal George Lunchtime
Stage Carpenter
JERRY NUNN
Studio Stage Carpenter
JOE BONAR
Festival Properties Runner
JOY BEELEY
Royal George
Properties Runner
LAURA MASCITELLI
Studio Stage
Properties Runner
ANTHONY BLASCHUK, SR
Festival Flyperson
DAVID DiFRANCESCO
Festival Stage Trade
MICHAEL NASZADOS
Outdoor Stage Supervisor
KEVIN McGUIRE
Changeover Crew
Festival Changeover
Supervisor
PAUL TIMMERMAN
Festival Changeover
Flyperson
DANIEL BRIDGMAN
Festival Changeover Hands
FELIX HIGH
JOSH JANTZ
Royal George
Changeover Supervisor
ROB GRINDLAY
Royal George
Changeover Trade
DAVID KESSLER
Royal George
Changeover Hand
WAYNE BOLGER
Wardrobe Running
Head of Wardrobe Running
MARGARET MOLOKACH
1st Festival Wardrobe
Supervisor
JOANNE BLASCHUK
Royal George
Wardrobe Supervisor
PAM GALLOP
2nd Royal George
Wardrobe Supervisor
JULIAN VALENTIN
3rd Royal George
Wardrobe Supervisor
KATE STEINBACH
Studio Wardrobe Supervisor
SHEILA RADOVANCEVIC
2nd Studio
Wardrobe Supervisor
SADIE DUCROIX
Festival Wardrobe Trades
ALEX ANDERSON
CHRISTINA GALANIS
DOT WARD
Royal George
Wardrobe Trades
STACEY BONAR
Wigs and Make-up
Head of Wigs and Make-up
LORNA HENDERSON
Festival Wigs Supervisor
FLO LEWIS
Royal George Wigs Supervisor
LORENA GHIRARDI
Studio Wigs Supervisor
EMMA DIRKS
2nd Festival Wigs Supervisor
JEANETTE WARD
2nd Royal George Wigs
Supervisor
CINDY LOU TACHÉ
3rd Royal George Wigs
Supervisor
ROSE HENDRIE
1st Festival Wigs Trade
MELISSA MOTTOLA
1st Royal George Wigs
Trade/3rd Festival Wigs Trade
MAUREEN POSADAS
2nd Festival Wigs Trade
JOE PAONESSA
MANAGEMENT
Human Resources
Director
DIANNE GIBBS
Housing Manager
NEIL SMITH
Maintenance
LARRY BENNETT
DEVELOPMENT
Director of Advancement
CINDY MEWHINNEY
Associate Director
MARION RAWSON
Associate Director, Individual Giving
KIMBERLEY WHITE
Senior Development and U.S. Relations Ambassador
CHARLIE OWENS
Senior Officer, Major and Corporate Gifts
DAN HICKEY
Senior Officer, Individual Giving
COLLEEN MONFILS
Manager, Governors Council
CHRISTINE PELLERIN
Manager, Membership Services
TIM CZABAN
Stewardship Officer
HEATHER SARGESONCALLARA
Senior Events Associate
STEPHANIE BROWN
Associate, Development
Communications
TINA SCHMIDT
Co-ordinator, Gift Processing
MADELINE MAMBELLA
Administrative Co-ordinator
TYLER COOK
Events Co-ordinator
LAURA GRAY
Administrative Assistant
TRUDY CARR
RACHAEL LILLIE
Supervisor, Membership Services
JEFF MacKAY
Membership Representatives
ELIZABETH ABRAHIM
THERESA FEOR
ASHLEY NOBLE
CHRISTIAN ROETHLING
JULIA VENTRESCA
ANNE WILSON
FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
Director (to May)
ROY REEVES
Controller
JULIE ALLEN-SARGENT
Assistant Controller
KIM EPP
Senior Manager, Payroll
RICK FOKKENS
Senior Accounting Clerk
GREG McARTHUR
Payroll and Project Co-ordinator
SUSAN ASHUKIAN
Accounts Payable Clerks
MONICA BUDD
TRISH FEDOROWICH
Audience Services and Facilities
Senior Manager
CHUCK MEWETT
Manager, Food and Beverage
JULIANNA UGUCCIONI
Administrative, Front-of-House Manager
WILL CROTHERS
Managers, Front-of-House
SUSAN DYER
VERA LENC
GREG McARTHUR
ROSS RINGLER
MURIEL TRIANO
Head of Housekeeping
DONNA SMITH
Head of Maintenance/ Security
GREIG HUNTER
Front-of-House/Food and Beverage Staff
JEANNIE BERG
LEA BOWMAN
KAIT BOYER
OWEN BROWN
LYNN COATES
MOLLY CUMMINGS
SHARANYA DEB
JUDY DENNIS
ROXANNE DiFRANCESCO
SAM DiFRANCESCO
EILISH DONNELLY
SUSAN DYER
ÉLIZE EARWICKER
DARCY ELLISON
WENDY FRASER
KOTE GALANIS
HANNAH GILCHRIST
JANE HANNA
GAIL HEWITT
ANN HILL
DAVE HUNTER
ANNE JACKSON
SHARON JEAN
DYLAN KING
GREGG KIRCHOFER
KAREN KITNEY
ANTHONY KUCHAR
ANNE MARIE LENC
VERA LENC
ISAAC LILLIE
LIAM MARRIOTT
MARY MATHEWS
ALLISON MAZUR
AMANDA McDONNELL
SARAH McDOUGALL
JULES MOORE
HANNAH PATTERSON
JOANNE PRIESTMAN
ROSS RINGLER
KATHERINE ROBERT
JAMIE SCHILZ
ELEANOR SNIDER
PAUL SNIDER
SANDRA SPROUL
KEITH SUTHERLAND
MARIE SWEETMAN
MELANIE THOMPSON
JOCE WARD
BRENDA WEAFER
KATHRYN WILSON
DENI ZAKOOR
Housekeeping Staff
JANICE BOCCABELLA
DARLENE BOWSLAUGH
DOROTHY CARTER
MARIE DUMOULIN
DONNA INGLIS
LORI-ANN McALLISTER
AGATA MIELCZAREK
CARMELLA SAPIENZA
SUE SIMS
JUDY SOBIERAJ
MELISSA VILA
Maintenance Lead Hand
DAVID McCARTHY
Maintenance Crew Heads
ANDY LOUTER
Maintenance Crew
CHRISTIAN SHUGAN
Grounds Crew
TYLER LEYLAND
Distribution
Supervisor
PAUL RODGERS
Information Technology Director
SARAH FABIANI
Senior Software Manager
VIKTOR STREMLER
Software Developer
TOMMY YANG
Network Administrator
JOHN CHRISTIAN
Security Administrator
TONY RICHES
Reception
Supervisor
LEEANNE PRICE
Database-Maintenance
Receptionists
MAUREEN BUTLER
ANNE JACKSON
GAIL KERR
MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS AND SALES
Director
VALERIE TAYLOR
Senior Marketing and Brand Manager
MARY CLARE LAMON
Direct Marketing
Co-ordinator
CATHERINE TAIT
Graphic Designer
CHRISTINE MORRIS
Creative Agency
KEY GORDON
Communications
Senior Manager
JENNIFFER ANAND
Co-ordinator
MATTHEW BICKERTON
Social Engagement Specialist
KATIE SCARLETT GALVIN
Publicist
B-REBEL
COMMUNICATIONS
Production Photographers
DAVID COOPER
EMILY COOPER
MICHAEL COOPER
Sales
Senior Manager, Ticketing and Analytics
AARON BOYD
Managers, Sales and Box Office
CARI GOSNELL
RYAN HULL
Assistant Manager, Sales and Box Office
MICHELLE CHASE
Co-ordinator, Reports and Scheduling
SARAH RODGERS
Co-ordinator, Sales Technology
PIPPA BARWELL
Box Office Staff
ZACHARY BIGGS
BRYAN BROOME
ELIZABETH HARVEY
SUSANNE HESLOP
JENNIFER PALABAY
JOEL RENNER
JESSICA SWEENY
ANTONETTA TREMONTE
VICTORIA WILLEMS
Senior Manager, Group and On-site Sales
WES BROWN
Green Room
Cook
JUDE JONES
Staff
CHASE CRAWFORD
TOM KUBOW
ERIKA LOFFELMANN
IMANT MALINS
MICHAEL THOMSON
Retail
Manager, Retail Sales and Shaw Express
MATT WEAVER
Staff
MARCUS ANDREWS
SAMARA BALL
GENY COLICCHIO-QUINN
MARK FRIESEN
TESSA GROOMBRIDGE
DANA PERESSOTTI
CHELSEA TOTTEN
OLIVIA TRIVIERI
Special Ticketing
Senior Manager
ALLISON COCHRAN
Assistant Co-ordinator
JANE McINTYRE
Group Sales and Special Ticketing Assistant
VICKI BRADLEY
Assistant
JULIE JONES
House Programmes
PUNCH & JUDY INC
Artistic Director Emeriti
JACKIE MAXWELL
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We salute all of the generous donors who help us to create great theatre!
Cumulative Giving Cumulative donations and pledges of $250,000 or more.
$1 MILLION+ The 1916 Foundation • Anonymous Buffalo Donors • Marilyn++ & Charles ++ Baillie • Estate of Mona M. Campbell • Alberta G. Cefis ++ & Ilio Santilli++ • Estate of Valerie Delacorte, Gabriel Pascal Memorial Fund • Richard++ & Darleen Falconer • Val Fleming+ • Nona Macdonald Heaslip + • Colleen++ & Brian Johnston • James & Diane++ King • Richard McCoy+ • The Jim Meekison++ & Carolyn Keystone++ Foundation • The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Foundation • Tim++ & Frances++ Price • The Slaight Family Foundation • The Donald++ & Elaine++ Triggs Family Foundation • Carol Walker & Estate of John Greenhill Walker • 1 anonymous gift
$750,000+ Carol & David+ Appel • Charles Balbach++ • Estate of Walter Carsen • The John R. Oishei Foundation • Andrew++ & Valerie Pringle • William++ & Meredith Saunderson • Shaw Festival Guild
$500,000+ Estate of Bram & Bluma Appel • James F. Brown++ • James A. Burton & Family Foundation • Robin Campbell++ & Peter Jewett++ • Truly Carmichael* & Tim Jennings*++ • Cullen Foundation • Mary E. Hill++ • Rennie & Bill+ Humphries • Nancy & John McFadyen • George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation • Philip & Berthe Morton Foundation • Corinne++ & Victor+ Rice • Estate of Ada W. Slaight+ • The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation • 2 anonymous gifts
$250,000+ Gail+ & Mark Appel • Lorne++ & Rosemary Barclay • Patricia & Barrie Barootes • Ron++ & Barbara++ Besse • Sheila Brown++ & Doug Guzman • Estate of Cairine Caldwell • DeRoy Testamentary Foundation • Donner Canadian Foundation • Michael Eagen & Michele Darling+ • David & Amy Fulton • Wendy++ & Bruce++ Gitelman • Mr++ & Mrs+ Anthony R. Graham • Mike Grey • Corinne Hansen • The Joan & Clifford Hatch Foundation • Estate of Lawrence Hodgett • Humeniuk Foundation • Mr Richard M. Ivey • Don+ & Gundy+ Jackson • Chris & Jeanne Jennings • Rebecca++ & Ian++ Joseph • Oliver Kent & Martine Jaworski • The Henry White Kinnear Foundation • Michael & Sonja+ Koerner • Cynthia & Malcolm+ Macdonald • The McLean Foundation • Bernard Ostry+, OC • Barbara Palk+ & John Warwick+ • Peter M. Partridge • Esther Sarick • Allan Slaight+ • Nancy Smith++ • Maureen+ & Wayne Squibb • Dorothy Strelsin Foundation • Estate of Douglas Elton Tallon • Philip Terranova & Audrey Allen • Liz Tory+ • Jim++ & Michal+ Wadsworth (Carlos & Elizabeth Heath Foundation, Mulroy Family Foundation, Robert & Patricia Colby Foundation) • Colin+ & Barbara+ Watson • 2 anonymous gifts
We also recognize the following corporations for their cumulative donations.
$1 MILLION+ Bell Canada • BMO Financial Group • Canada Life • CIBC • Honda Canada Inc • HSBC • RBC • Scotiabank • Sun Life Financial • TD Bank Group • Vintage Hotels
ENDOWMENT & ESTATE GIFTS Contributions made over the last 13 months.
Marilyn++ & Charles ++ Baillie, Baillie Family Fund for Education • Estate of Dr Henderson Scott & Cairine Caldwell • Fiera Capital Corporation • Estate of Norma Sinclair Hintz • Estate of Lawrence George Hodgett • Macdonald Family, Macdonald Family Fund • Paul Madeley, in loving memory of Gayle Stokes • Joanna Manning, in loving memory of Gary Manning • Estate of Margaret McKelvey • Mary I. McLeod • H & R Mida Charitable Foundation • Robert Ohlerking, in memory of Christopher Li Greci • In memory of Edna Powers • Joy Rogers, in loving memory of Jack Hahn • RP Investment Advisors • The Slaight Family Foundation • Dorothy Strelsin Foundation • Estate of Douglas Elton Tallon • Estate of Cynthia D. Trainor • Michael & Anne Tyler Fund through the Victoria Foundation • 2 anonymous gifts
Annual Donors Gifts in support of annual operations and special projects made over the last 13 months.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS
$250,000+ VISIONARIES James A. Burton & Family Foundation • The Slaight Family Foundation • 1 anonymous gift
$100,000+ DIRECTORS CIRCLE Marilyn ++ & Charles ++ Baillie • Patricia & Barrie Barootes • David & Amy Fulton • Colleen ++ & Brian Johnston • Gabriel Pascal Memorial Fund • Dorothy Strelsin Foundation - Corinne Nemy • 1 anonymous gift
$50,000+ ARTISTS CIRCLE Gail+ & Mark Appel • Ron++ & Barbara++ Besse • Nathan & Marilyn Hayward • Nona Madconald Heaslip + & The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation • Mary E. Hill++ • Martha+ & Tom++ Hyde • Chris & Jeanne Jennings • Oliver Kent & Martine Jaworski • James & Diane++ King • Mona+ & Harvey Levenstein • Andrew++ & Valerie Pringle • Joy Rogers, in loving memory of Jack Hahn • Philip Terranova & Audrey Allen DONORS
$25,000+ PRODUCERS CIRCLE Richard & Mona Alonzo • Carol & David+ Appel • Robert & Mary Pat Armstrong • Charles Balbach++ • Robin Campbell++ & Peter Jewett++ • Truly Carmichael* & Tim Jennings*++ • John+ & Lynn+ Clappison • Michael Eagen & Michele Darling+ • Wendy++ & Bruce++ Gitelman • Roe Green • Jacob & Inge Iliohan • Richard McCoy+ • The Jim Meekison++ & Carolyn Keystone++ Foundation • Corinne++ & Victor+ Rice • William++ & Meredith Saunderson • Sylvia Soyka • The Donald++ & Elaine++ Triggs Family Foundation • Barbara Watson+ • Jaime Watt++ & Paul Ferguson • 2 anonymous gifts
GOVERNORS COUNCIL
DRESS CIRCLE ($15,000+) Sheila Brown++ & Doug Guzman • Alberta G. Cefis++ & Ilio Santilli++ • William Chapman • Robert & Karen Christmann • Bill & Barbara Etherington • Lauren & Vaughn Goettler – Goettler Family Foundation • Mike Grey • Mr & Mrs C.L. Hunt • Rebecca++ & Ian++ Joseph • Kristian+ & Anita Knibutat • Janet Lamb • R. Susan MacIntyre • Petrina & Peter++ Nesbitt • Marilyn Pilkington & Wayne Shaw • Dr Reza Rastegar, Elissa Rastegar & Mrs Sheryl Armstrong Rastegar • J+ & L Rogers Charitable Foundation • In loving memory of Pam Rowcliffe • Esther Sarick • Ann Savege • Nancy Smith++ • Ken Stowe & Nita Farmer • M & N Walker Fund at the Niagara Community Foundation • 1 anonymous gift
FOUNDERS CIRCLE ($10,000+) Hy & Phyllis Ackerman • Keith Ambachtsheer & Virginia Atkin • Peggy Bell, in loving memory of Ken Bell • Lee & Barbara Bentley • Jim Bertram & Bonnie Foster • James F. Brown++ • Tim Carroll*++ & Alexis Milligan* • William Charnetski & Kerry Stewart • Andrew Colwell & Richard Ellis • Mark Curry, in loving memory of Ann • Patricia G. Debrusk • Elizabeth S. Dipchand++ & Gregory Prekupec • Mr James Duhaime & Dr Heather Hannah • Richard++ & Darleen Falconer • Wayne & Isabel Fox • Marlene & Darryl Fry • Dr Bob Gaines & Toni Burke • John & Judith Grant • Lyle Hall++ • Dr Pamela Hopper • Paul & Valerie Kirkconnell • Betty & Jamie Knight • Janet & Sidney Lindsay • Nancy & John McFadyen • Janet+ & Bruce McKelvey • Dr Donna McRitchie & Dr Shaf Keshavjee • Gregory Prince++ & Erin O’Brien • Judy Goetz Sanger+ • Frank & Susan Saraka • Linda Sauro • Sabine & Jochen Schleese • Elizabeth Stirling & Tom Millward • Marc St-Onge++ & Kellie Saunders • Jim++ & Michal+ Wadsworth • Carol Walker • Jeanne & William Watson • 2 anonymous gifts
BENEFACTOR ($6000+) Susan Addario & David Farrar • Ruth Aspinall, in loving memory of Scott Aspinall • Carroll & Ted Baker • Peter & Marilyn Balan • Lorne++ & Rosemary Barclay • Laurie Barrett & Martin Block • David & Faith Bell • Nani & Austin Beutel • Colin & Sandy Black • Doug & Valerie Brenneman • Edward & Caryn Chatten • John Cleghorn+, in loving memory of Pattie • John & Debi Coburn • Michael+ & Honor de Pencier • Marilyn Dickinson • Vivien Dzau+ & Daniel MacIntosh • Carol & Burke Fossee • Robert C. Gibson • Steve Goldberger & Dorothy S. Karr • Mike & Cindy Hansen • Laurie+ & Douglas Harley • Sally Harmer, in memory of Jack Harmer • Ann Holcomb & Rene Bertschi • Kathy Inch • Oliver Jakob & Bettina Buss ++ • Lori Labatt • Mrs Susan Lee • Larry Lubin • Robert+ & Margaret MacLellan • Sharmini Mahadevan & Diana Dimmer • Leo Maloney, in loving memory of Dennis Thomson • Anthony B. & Mary++ S. Martino • John & Marg Mather • Sandra & Dennis McCarthy • David & Agatha Moll Charitable Fund • Noel D. Mowat • Karen Munninghoff, in loving memory of Paul Munninghoff • Bill & Lee Nelson • Gary Pottruff & Maire Verschurren
• Margaret & Joseph Reynolds • Sam & Robin++ Ridesic • Drs Jolie Ringash & Glen Bandiera++ • Maureen+ & Wayne Squibb • Gerald & Margaret Sutton • Jack Watkins & Erin English • Stefa & Les Williams • Ron & Kay Woodfine - Just Christmas • 4 anonymous gifts
LEADING PATRON ($3500+) Julie Allen-Sargent* & Stuart Sargent • Robert C. Anderson • Kathleen & Richard Aregood • Ed & Connie Babcock • Melissa Balbach & John Bace • Ms Heather Bacon • John & Claudine Bailey • Aubrey+ & Marsha Baillie • James Baillie & Elizabeth Kocmur • Barberian Steak House Family • Brian & Jenifer Bassil • Roland H. & Mary Bauer • Michel & Doreen Bell • Mrs Amanda Binnie • Blake & Heyerdahl • Michael & Kate Bradie • Mary & Tony Brebner • Debra Breuer & Douglas Goodman • Arlene + & Rob Carson • Karen Chapman • Karen Cheah • Jeffrey Chessum • Jean & Joe Chorostecki • Roger & Susan Christensen • Hazel Claxton+ & Jude Robinson • Bud Coffey, in loving memory of Richard Gallagan • Gary+ & Cathy Comerford • Marion Cross • Patrick J. Devine • Ken & Ginny Douglas • Paula & Thomas Elsinghorst • Mario Ferrara & Annabel Kennedy • Andy Filardo & Beth Profit • Russell C. & Carol N. Finch • James R. Fleck & Dr Sandra Zakarow • Donald & Cathy Fogel • Kenneth++ & Amy Friedman • Marian Galligan • Paul & Helen Gareau • Nancy & Graham Garton • Dianne Gibbs* • Robert H. Gibson • Fred & Charleen Gorbet • Mr++ & Mrs+ Anthony R. Graham • In memory of Charles J. (Jack) Hahn: Perelandra Fund • Rob Haines, UE • Doris Hausser • Pamela++ & Robert Heilman • Yolanda & Mike Henry • Lauri & Jean Hiivala • James Hinds • Timothy & Pamela Hines • April & Norbert Hoeller • Douglas+ & Colleen Hunter • Ms Dawn Joki • David & Joanne Jones • Ellen & Nick Kammer • Jay & Marni Kell • Ed+ & Ann King • Dr George & Carolyn Kotlewski • Barry Kropf • Jane E. Laird • Andy Lam • Joanne Lang • Nancy Lockhart & The Murray Frum Foundation • Ann & John Lorenc • Virginia Lovelace & Jonathan Taylor • Wendy Luce, in loving memory of Dr John T. Luce • Jefferson & Sally Mappin • Dennis & Bernadette Martin • Gail Martin & John Kaloyanides • Alan McAdams & Ellen Dykes • Robert McGavin & Kerry Adams • Donald McGerrigle & Christina Brouillette • Andrea & Endre Tibor Mecs • Cindy* & Derek Mewhinney • Michael++ & Katie++ Militello • Peter Milne • Edward & Judith Mortl • Linda Murray • Susan Murray, in memory of John Butler • Janet A. Newey • Pamela
& Richard Nowina • Larry Oakes • Richard & Nadine Osborn • David Pakrul & Sandra Onufryk • George Papatheodorou & Ken Deeth • Peter Partridge & Poppy Gilliam • Peter & Paraskeve Petrakis • Carole & Paul Pizzolante, ON • Tom & Mary Powers • Joyce & Roy*++ Reeves • Rick & Pegi Reininger • Samiha++ & Aseer
Sachedina • Mr Glen Salzman • Derwyn Sangster • Edward++ & Elizabeth++ Simmons • Wendy & Wayne Smith • Mr++ & Mrs Scott Snow • Dr Diane M. Soubly • Martha Spears • Mrs H. Stairs + & Mr E. Mooney • Renee Stein, in memory of Mel Stein • AJ & Nancy Stokes • Lois Tatelman • Lynda & Stephen Tepperman • Jacques Thibault & Ruth M. Gover • Gail & Doug Todgham • Liz Tory+ • Ms Karen Tribble • Mark & Bettie Tullis • Greg Virelli & Mario Vecchi • Ian Waldron & Tim Redmann • Jack Walsh • Gregg+ & Joan Watkins • Thomas & Sasha Weisz • Garry & Shirley West • Bruce++ & Susan Winter • Brenda Wivell • 6 anonymous gifts
PATRON ($2000+) Bob & Dorothy Aaron • Mr Doug & Dr Lavonne Adams • Philip Akin++ • Jerome Andersen & June Hajjar • Mr Ronald R. Andersen • David Antscherl & Carol Lewis • Sherri & William Appell • Callie Archer • Diane Arsenault & Gwyer Moore • Barb & Terry Babij • Bob & Irene Bader • Graham Bailey • Richard J. Balfour • Gerry & Elizabeth Baranecki • Michael Barnstijn & Louise MacCallum • Robert & Loretta Barone • Paul & Sue Baston • Ruthanne Beighley • Robert Berckmans & Joanne Heritz • Dr David H. Bergen & Deborah Kehler • Greg+ & Karen Berti • Lynn Bevan • Amina & Aziz Bhaloo • Stacey Lynn Bilotta • John & Isabella Bisanti • Steve & Helen Bittner • Ellen & Murray Blankstein • Ronald James Boone • Balfour Bowen Family Foundation • David P. Boyd • Ann-Louise Branscombe Fund at Niagara Community Foundation • Chris Brown & Catherine Philbrook • Reny Burrows • The Paul Butler & Chris Black Foundation at Toronto Foundation • Dr & Mrs + John L. Butsch • Mark Callan* & Marion Rawson* • Ms Judith Callender & Dr Thomas Pekar • Douglas & Maureen Cameron • Robin Cardozo & Jeff Richardson • Ellen & Brian Carr • Doreen & Terry Carroll • Greg Case • Mark Chason & Mariana Botero Chason • Briana Chen • Rosemary Chew • Gerry & Carol Chrisman • Robert & Margaret Cole • Janice Coles • Glenna & Derek Collins • Harry M. Core • Dr George Corella & James Frackenpohl • Katherine Robb Corlett • Catherine Cornell & Declan Lane • Dr Lesley S. Corrin • Cathy & Paul Cotton • Kim Cranfield • John & Libby Crossingham • Mr & Mrs Bill Crothers • Judith Bowden* & Jeff Cummings* • Gordon & Patti Cunningham • Professor K.G. Davey • Barry Davidson, MD • David & Linda Dayler • George & Kathy Dembroski • Amanda Demers & Brian Collins • James & Mary Frances Derby • Mrs Margot Devlin • Mr Michael Disney • Dr Delf Dodge & Mr Timothy Dodson • Britt & Nancy Doherty • Vicky Downes • Reed Drews & Lisa Iezzoni • Robert Dunigan & Robert McDonald • Peter & Suzanne Durant • Alan & Susan* Dyer • Steven Endicott • Sarah* & Tom Fabiani • Mrs Margaret Fairman • Tina Filoromo • Don Finlayson* • Mr David Flora • Gary & Val Foerster • Ms Gina Foster • Robert & Julia+ Foster • Ron & Linda Fritz • Richard Furnstahl & Teresa Stankiewicz • Rev Ivars Gaide & Rev Dr Anita Gaide • Angeline Galotta • John & Therese Gardner • John Geller • Hope & Libby Gibson • Caroline Gill & David Jackson • Penny Gill & Chris Pibus • Susan Ginsberg • Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson • Laurie Hoffman Goetz & Wendelin Goetz • Judith & A.C. Goodson • Naomi Gordon • A. Gorodezky & S. Curtis • Jan & Kathy Goulding • Gouvernet Arts Fund at Rochester Area Community Foundation • David & Sharon Graper • C.S. Greiner • Richard & Lorraine Gretsinger • Art Grierson • F. Gruehl • Dan Hagler & Family • Annette Hamm & Daniel Smith • Carol Hansell • Katharin Ramelle Harkins • Donald Harrington • Shira Hart • Roberta Heath • Suzanne Hébert+ • Judith & David Hecker • Mary & Arthur Heinmaa • Marion & Ren Henderson • Dr Dianne Heritz • Mary Ellen Herman • Anne T. & Thomas C. Hilbert • Marion F. Hill • Mary E. Hofstetter & R. David Riggs • Martin & Maria Hoke • Dr Steven Millward & Mary L. Holley • Richard & Susan Horner • Oleh Hrycko • John J. & Maureen O. Hurley • Roberta Jacobs-Meadway & Jay Meadway • Elliott Jacobson & Judy Malkin • Mr Kent James • Mr Paul Jensen & Ms Julie Harrington • Catherine Jevons & Lionel Gadoury • Tim++ & Lisa Johnson • Dr David & Glenda Jones • Jeffrey & Jessica Kahn • Catherine & Dan Kaloutsky • Joel Keenleyside & Paula Donahue • Prof Joseph Kelly, Esq • Sylvia Kennedy • David Ker & Vivienne Salamon
• Johanna Killam • Peter & Elke Kluge Family Foundation • Ms Patricia Knipe • David & Sarena Koschitzky
• Kelly & Bryce Kraeker • Ms Janet Kramer • Mr & Mrs Charles F. Kreiner Jr • Thomas & Kathy Kuhl • Helen H.S. Lam & Joseph A. Lloret • David Lane & Grayson Sless • Rai Lauge & Jo Holden • Victor C. Laughlin, MD Memorial Foundation Trust • Elizabeth Lewis & Thomas Saunders • Richard & Lynne Liptrap • Ronald H. Luczak++ • Christine Macdonald • Cynthia Macdonald • Terry+ & Terry Mactaggart • Paul Madeley, in loving memory of Gayle Stokes • Rita & Charles Maimbourg • Susan & Todd Makler • Dr & Mrs Mario Malizia • M. & M. Marques • Ms Eileen Martin & Dr Hugh Gayler • Fred W. Martin • Marlene Masales & Victor Ramanauskas
• Lynn Masaro • Laura Mason • Elaine Mayo • Robert McChlery & Lorne Swan • Dr & Mrs James W. McClellan
• Ms Marcia McClung & Franklyn J. Griffiths • Robert McClure • Ross & Fran McElroy • Heather L. McKee • Scott McKowen* & Christina Poddubiuk* • Daina & Heinz Meusel • Dr Lisa Mikitch • Mr Jonathan A. Millen
• Alan & Patricia Mills • Valerie & Jim Milostan • Florence Minz • Mary Mizen++ & Chris Booth • Mogford Campbell Family Foundation • Gary & Linda Molinaro • Elizabeth Molson, in memory of Gerda Molson • Alex & Abby Moore • Alfred & Nancy+ Mouget • Mr Thomas & Mrs Marceline Mudie • John Murphy & Joyce Macredie • Ms Nancy Murray • Ms Deborah Nathan • Peter & Laurie Nixon • Noble Caplan Abrams • Wanda & Jim Novinger • J. Orange & F. Clayton • Ian Orchard & Angela Lange • Jonathan F. Orser • Charles H. Owens* • Anne & Don Palmer • Brian & Paddy Parr, honorary members • Victor & Esther Peters • Martin & Denise Pick • Percy Pierre • Polk Family Charitable Trust • John & Norine Prim • The Racioppo Family Foundation • Pinky+ & Bill Regan • Carol Reid+ • Chick Reid* & Tom McCamus* • Terry & Barbara Reideler • Margaret Rieger • Heather & David Ring • Shirley E. Roberts • Mr Paul Rogers • Dr Lynn Rosen & Bradley C. Rosen •
Tuula & John Ross • Rubens Family Foundation • Lori Russell & David Banks • Marti & Bob Sachs • David & Dinah Sanderson • Robert & Marlene Savlov • Mr & Mrs John Sayers • Terry Schoenick & Debra Reger • Mr & Mrs Michael S. Schwenger • Doug & Cheryl Seaver • Linda Seppanen • Beverly & Gerry Shea • Allan Sherwin • Mrs Carolyn Sibbick • Maureen Simpson & Almos Tassonyi • Sara & Michelle Sirkin • Matthew & Pam Skinner • Barbara A. Smith • A. Britton Smith • Dr Kevin Smith & Marian Lips Fund • William & Linda Smith • Dr & Mrs Robert J. Sokol • Victor & Anne Solomatenko • Robert D. Sommerville • Bob & Linda Sommerville • Dennis Souder & Deborah Bannerman • Dr Graham Spanier • Stephen & Monica Spaulding • Susan & Ron Starkman • Mr Lawrence+ & Mrs Pamela Stevenson • Anita Stoll & Pete Clapham • Styles Family Foundation • David Sutherland, in loving memory of Susan Sutherland • Keith Sutherland • Doug & Lynda Swackhamer • Rosalie Tansey • Wuchien Michael Than • Gordon & Annette Thiessen • Brian & Christine Thorne • In memory of Dr John Treilhard, Dr Lynne Thurling • Marilyn & Geoff Trout • Mrs Nicole Tzetzo ++ • Gary & Marie Van Graafeiland • Mr & Mrs Alan+ & Diane Walker • Joan & Jean Waricha • Carolyn J. Warner • Lynne & Dean Weber • June & David Weind • Lyman & Deana Welch • Harriet 'Sis' Bunting Weld+ • Alan & Leia Wheable • Mark & Marilyn Wheaton • John C. Williams • Mark Wilton • The Honourable & Mrs Theo Wolder • Bob & Joan Wright • Walter & Marie Zelasko • Donald Ziraldo+ • Carole Zucker Family Fund at the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto • 10 anonymous gifts
FRIENDS
PREMIER ($1000+) Andy & Karen Abrams • M. Ackerman • Trish Anthony & Kathryn O'Grady • Catherine Arnott & Brian Jones • Gail Asper, OC, OM, LLD & Michael Paterson • John & Eleanor Ball • Jack & Lisa Baron • S. Basmajian & K.J. Conway • Don Beddage • Ms Abigail Bennett • Sylvia Bennett++ • Timothy & Susan Benning • Diane F. Berlinski • Mr Edward Bickford • Roy & Ronna Birnboim • Dr Diana Blank • Ms Christine Bloch • Johnny & Lina Blue • Katharine Bocking • Joan & Larry Bourk • Paul F. Brett • Brian & Jenny Brown • Desi Brownstone & Kandice McKee • Chris Bucko & Eva Wu • Heather Caloren • Francesco & Betty Catanzariti • Ms Yvonne Causer & David Bell • Bill & Sheila Childs • Ellen & Michael Chirco • Henry & Jeanne Ciok • Mark Cipra & Ann Fairhurst • Dr John R. Cole • Mrs Claire Conway • Constance & Ron Corrigan • Jim Cressman • Dr Roger I. Dacre • Ralph Darr • Mrs Marilyn & Mr Philip Davis • Christine Dear • Ms Sophie Dennis • John & Rita Densley • Nicholas & Susan Dietrich • Dr & Mrs Richard Farr Dietrich • Andrew W. Dorn • J. Driskill & L. Bryant • K.A. Durie • Mary & Frank Eberl • Victor Eiser • Eleanor L. Ellins • Tom & Kim Elltoft • Paul Epner & Janet Gans-Epner • Bonita Eros & Craig McMullen • W J Clyde Ervine • Mr & Mrs Sheldon & Bev Fainer • Sarah M. Fallon & John R. Fudyma • James Farquharson • Timothy J Finnell • Trevor & Sandra Francis • Carole E. Fritz • Mr Randal Froebelius • Currie & Judy Gardner • Mr Jack Geuzebroek • Virginia Gilbert • Sharon & Ian Gillespie • Marie Gillespie • Lesley Rigg & David Goldblum • Lyn Goldman • Mary Greco • Alan Green • John D. Ground • Joanne & John Guoba • Mr I.S. Haberman • Joanne Hall • Alton B. Harris & Andrea S. Kramer • Glynis A. Henry • Lawrence & Beatrice Herman • Wendi & Murray Hiebert • Penny Hommel & Jim Bergman • George & Mac Hoover • Bill Horbett Sr • Dr & Mrs C.E.M. Horning • Mary Ellen Hoy & James Keller • Robin & Charlotte Hoy • Ms Kathryn Hughes • Roger Hughes & Susan Peacock • James Hunker & Janice Remai • Dr Judy Hunter • Dr Jann Istead • Leslie Jackson • Joan & William Jaynes • Mrs Erin Jennings • Christine & George Joyce • Richard & Gretchen Kane • Dagmar Kanzler & David Ross • Brent & Marilyn Kelman • Linda Kenny & Ralph Eades • Kyle Kerr • Cecilia Kloecker • Ms Roma Kozak • David & Donna Lailey • Kevin Lamotte* & Cynthia Kamin • Bonnie Lamourie & Ronald Newman • Teresa Lasiuk & Mike Carruthers • Charles & Jennifer Lawson • Esther Lee • Francois Letaconnoux • Dr Harlan L. Lewis & Doris F. Wittenburg • Susan & Rebekah Little • Ms Susan MacDonald • John Brian MacIntyre • Dr Stuart MacLeod • Mrs Heather MacNeil • James & Virginia Mainprize • Ms Lillian Martingano • Sue & Biff Matthews • Nancy May • Margaret Matyus & Sean Foley • Jim McArthur • Dr & Mrs David M. McConnell, Jr • Jim McDonald & Michelle Arsenault • I. McDorman • Ms Adrienne McLennan • Col & Mrs Cathi Mietkiewicz • Mr Stephen Miller • Kelly & Sally Monaghan • Frederick W. & Linda K. Moncrief • Patricia Monger & Ralph Pudritz • Bryan & Darlene Mooney • Patricia Morgan • John A. Morrison • Richard & Mary Ann Morse • Karen & Peter Mount • Art & Carol Marie Nadelle • Robert & Patricia Neill • W.G. Nicholls • George Oleske & Carol Duncan • Emile Oliana & Alvin Iu • Ms Jennifer Palabay* • Pauline Petek • Robert & Emily Pfohl • Jim Pianosi • Mr Robert W. Plyler • Ms Krista Prong • Ms Carolyn Ramos • Ms Dyanne Ratner • Mr & Mrs John Rennie • Dr Lyn Robinson • William & Seonaid Ross • Nancy Rubenstein & Ruth Wahlstrom • Susan & Peter Salomonsson • Bill & Kathy Sanford • Catharine Saxberg • John Schambach • Jan Schmitt • Michael & Sandra Sexton • Heather Sheehan • Kenneth G. Shelley • William M. Short • Ivor & Renee Simmons • Jim & Nancy Sissons • Christina Skublics • Bryan Smale & Sherry Dupuis • Judy Snyder • Phil Spencer • Paul Sportelli* • Mary & George Stark • William & Karen Streck • Ann & Ross Stuart • Mr Jonathan Tan* • Jacquelynne L. Tarves • Ms Jane Taylor • Jan & Ken Thompson • Catharina Tocchio • Dr M.J. Toswell • Mrs. Donna Townsend • Judith Trotter-Field & Richard Field • Douglas & Jennifer Tufts • Mary Usher-Jones • Miss Kathleen Weber • Philip & Kimberley* White • James Wilson • Ms Jane Wilson • Robert & Dana Wilson • Vida Winegarden • Julian & Nandita Wise • Mr & Mrs Doug Woods • John & Leslie Wright • Morden S. Yolles • William Young • Mary V Zimmerman • 14 anonymous gifts
SUSTAINING ($600+) Susan Aihoshi • Matthew & Phyllis Airhart Fund at Toronto Foundation • Marilyn & Joseph Allevato • D. Altman & J. Skinner • Audrey Amo & Alan Bowers • Alan Anderson • Kay & David Anderson • Sue Anderson • Nancy Brown Andison & Mike Andison • Laurie & Michael Andrews • David & Jan Angus • Dr Charles & Mrs Susanne Armitage • Tony Aspler • Kent & Wendy Banting • Marilyn Bardeau • Ms Pippa Barwell* • Fred & Karen Beattie • Steve Beatty-Front Row Insurance Brokers • Thomas & Linda Beran • Mrs Grazyna Bergman & Mr Douglas Kiefer • Michael Berlis & Ellen Cheslock • Albert & Lynne Bishop • Steven & Allison Blakey • Rory Bolger & Helene Rottenberg • Barry Bolton • Ms Kimberley Bolton • Lucy & Jim Bondy • Arlene Book • Dr & Mrs Gerald & Sandra Boswell • Mary Bright • Dena Broeders & David Hunter • Ms Barbara Brown • Mr Dan Brown • Mrs Heidi Brown • Ms Katherine Buchanan • Bill & Sharon Burns • Mrs Jane Calver • Mr Frank Carere • Graham Carpenter • Brian Carr & Kathryn Elliott • Dr Bruce Case • Dean & Mary Jane Chamberlain • Robert Chapla • Sandra Chodarcewicz • Andrew J. Cleland • Mr & Mrs James Clemens • Close Shavians • Rod & Mary Coates • Kenneth Copland • Mr & Mrs M.G. Corbett • John & Hiedi Cox • Ms Susan N Crisp • Mike & Heather Cross • Joyce Czaban • Bob & Diane Czarnik • Mr Leonard A. Davis • M Davidovic • George & Kathleen Davie • Kathryn Derby & Robert Sexsmith • Marie Desjardins • Sheila & James Drury • Ms Marjorie Dumbrell • Mr Michael Durman • Tom & Judy Dwyer • Carl S. Ehrlich & Michal Shekel • Karen Elting • Mrs Evelyn Ernest • Robert W. Esler & Silvia Marcus • Susan Dalgetty Ezra & David Don Ezra • Robert & Ruthann Fagan • Livio Farallo • Mr Greg Fedoryn & Mrs Susan Henry • Mr David Feeny • Marwin Feldman • Mr Daniel H. Ferrier & Mr Ronald Northrup • Mary Thomas • Barbara Fingerote • Graham & Silke Flint • Linda & Ken Foxcroft • Frank & Cynthia Franklin • Mr Wayne D. Gale • Courtney & Gerard Garneau • Bente & Tom Garner • Holde Gerlach • Allen & Maida Gerskup • Thomas M. Gervasi • Marcia & Bernie Glick • John & Susan Goddard • Dorothy Graham • Ms Cindy Grant • Brian & Lenore Greaves • Marcia & Michael Grimes • Vance & Virginia Gudmundsen • Ms Marjorie Gunther • Joan Haberman • Tanis Hall • Peter Hall • Virginia Hamill • William Hammond • David Harding • Eric Harper & Tina Kaye • Phil & Dolores Haverstick • Helen Hawkins • Nancy Hayden • Ms Linda Helson • Robert & Jo Henderson • Alison Hepburn • Tom Higgason • Bill & Rosette Hillgrove • Tom Hoadley & Cindy Lombardo • Beryl Holtam • Jim & Jean Horne • Art Huber & Janet Jeffrey • James Hughes • Mr Timothy R. Hulsey • David & Emily Hyde • Barbara G. Inglese • Linda Irenegreene • Barbara Jackel • Mr Mark D. Jacobs • Jean Jagendorf • Janet James • David & Leslie Jeanneret • Audrey Johnston • Rod Johnston • Keith Jones • Michael Jones • Scott & Beth Jorgensen • Richard Joyrich • George & Gail Julie • Michael Kaul • Ms Avril Kearney • Ms Patricia Kersey • Ms Inga Khan • Richard & Sally Kinsey • Mr John Kivlichan • Celia Knapp & William Cobb • Mr & Mrs I. Paul & O.M. Komarnicky • Terry Kratz • Lois Kurtz • Joy Lambert • Mr & Mrs B.J. Laws • Kirk Nairn Lawson • Bev & Ken Leiser • Craig & Abby Lewis • Mr Colin Lindsay • Cathy Lindsey • David & Diane Lisburn • Mrs & Mr Gillian & Bob Little • Ms Sonya Livingston • Rev Karl E. Loeb • Robert & Bonnie Logan • Mr Steve Lowden • Susan Lubick • Mary & Kenneth Lund • Edward Lupa • Beverly & Charles Lynde • Mr Arthur MacDonald • Mary MacDonell • Mrs & Mr Jacqueline & John MacInnes • Laurel MacKay-Lee • James & Gladys MacPherson • Kathy & David Maister • Mr Leor Margulies • Mrs Helen Markus • Ms Lynn Marshall • David & Diana Mason • Pauline Mateas, in memory of Lyle R. Nickle • Colin & Sharen Mayers • D. Ann McClure • Anne-Marie McLatchie • Mrs Suzanne McSheffrey • Mr Terry Melnyk • John & Erna Mewhinney • Bishop Daniel Miehm • Lynda & Jim Miller • Ms Dianne Milligan • John Mills Sr & Jill E Mills • Elliott & Elyse Milstein • Marg Misener • Alan Moffett • Dr James C. Moore • E. Morandi-Bonner • James & Mary Morgan • Arthur & Franca Moss • Dr Mary Ann Mountain • Marg & Gary Mousseau • Carol & Linda Muehlig, in memory of Gladys Muehlig • Lynn & Stephen Muench • Mrs Dawn D. Mullinger • Kim Mustill • Debbie Myers • Janet-Lee & George Nadas • Heidi Nadon • Jan Brydon & Howard Nadworny • Doug & Mary Neal • Nick & Jean Neumann • Karin Nitsch & James Rose • Mr Fergus ODonnell • Lynn & John O'Donnell • Michael & Laura O'Hara • Alek & Dyanne Oleszkowicz • Dr Elizabeth Oliver-Malone • Charles & Judy Overland • Nancy Kay Owens • Thomas & Susan Palmer • Bonnie & Dennis Parass • John Park & Sharon Tocher • Mrs Audrey Paton • D. Murray Paton • Mr & Mrs Frank Penny • Mr & Mrs Perkins • Mr Steven L. Peters • Lisa Rae Philpott • Mr & Mrs John G. Polzin • Larry & Karen Poulos • Jim & Bonnie Powell • Gaye-Ann & Les Pracsovics • John & Carol Price • Gerald & Veronica Punnett • Frances M. & Gary H. Quart • Robert J. Redhead • Judge Bonnie Reed & Stuart Schlossberg • A. Reeve & C. Rose • Laurie Reid • Owen Ricker • Keith & Susan Rivers • Dr & Mrs E. Lee Robbins • Mr Robert Robinson • Mary Anne Rokitka • Geoff Rowell • Edward & Nina Jane Roy • Lorraine & Manfred Rudolph • Neil Rudolph & Susan Cluff • Michael & Janet Ryval • Kathy & Roger Sabo • Rowena & Peter Samuel • Jan & Paul Sanderson • Susan L. Savage • Carl V. Schmult, Jr • John & Donna Schwartzburg • Jack & Carolyn Scott • Linda Seifert • Leo & Sheila Serio • Robert and Deborah Shakotko • Julie Shannon • Paula Shapiro • Mr & Mrs Peter Restivo • Ms Carolyn Sihler • Robert Simpson & Catherine Craig • Donald B. Smith • Mrs Gene Anne Smith • Doug & Noreen Sockett • Robert Spadoni • David & Trudy Spence • Myrna Stait-Gardner • Linda & Mark Steinman • Mr Robert Stitt • David & Beverley Stone • Barbara Stratton • Dr Alex Sunarich • James Sutherland • Donald Szydlo • Jan & Bob Tanouye • Joanna K. Taylor • Peter Taylor • Helen E. Tazzman • Alan Tenenhouse • Dr Eva Tlusty • The Toby Family • Mary Toll & William Heimann • Martha Tory • Nanci Turk • Lori L. & John R. Twombly • Larry & Joan Urbanoski • Fay & Garry Vanden Beukel • Dr Nancy J. Vivian • Vito Volterra • Helen Vosu & Donald Milner • Nick & Marg Walker • Wendy Ward • Lisa Wascovich & Marie Ivkanec • Ms Lynn Weiner • Lawrence Weis & Dr Kathi McCarroll • Shan & Ivor Wharf • Alden & Susan White • Rasa & Neil Wilkinson • Mr Brian Williams • Ione S. Williams • Larry Willis & Robyn Ellis • Rev Mark J. Wolski • Eve Wylie • Bill & Claudia Zehe • 33 anonymous gifts
ENDOWMENT
The Shaw’s Endowment Fund totals more than $36.5 million and provides this Festival with a portion of the net income earned each year – a vital and reliable source of revenue. The Shaw’s Endowment has grown thanks to the following generous donors and their Funds which support a diverse range of initiatives and programs: Bram & Bluma Appel, Bram & Bluma Appel Playwright in Residence Fund • Carol & David+ Appel, Carol & David Appel Play Development Fund • Estate of Lillian M. Aylesworth, Robert & Lillian Aylesworth Endowed Academy Fund • Marilyn++ & Charles ++ Baillie, Christopher Newton Interns Fund & Baillie Family Fund for Education • Charles Balbach++ , Gardens & Beautification Fund • James F. Brown++ , Debra J. Graham & James F. Brown Fund • Walter Carsen+, O.C., Rose Fund • John Cronyn, John Cronyn Fund • Margaret & Jim Fleck, Paul D. Fleck Fund • Doralee & Lawrence Garfinkel, David Garfinkel Memorial Fund • George Weston Ltd, Director's Project Fund • Corinne Hansen, Ali & Corinne Hansen Fund • Martha+ & Tom++ Hyde, Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre Fund • Ivey Foundation, Academy Professional Endowment Fund • Beryl Ivey & Richard M. Ivey, Academy Professional Endowment Fund • Don & Gundy+ Jackson, Gundy Jackson Fund • Diane++ & James King, Shaw Festival Travel Fund • Ed+ & Ann King, Ed & Ann King Wardrobe Endowment Fund • Macdonald Family, Macdonald Family Fund • H & R Mida Charitable Foundation, H & R Mida Fund • Michael+ & Katie Militello, Katie & Michael Militello Endowed Fund • Tim++ & Frances ++ Price, Tim & Frances Price Risk Fund • Andrew++ & Valerie Pringle, Andy Pringle Creative Reserve Fund • Calvin G. Rand+ , Calvin Rand Fund • William++ & Meredith Saunderson, William & Meredith Saunderson Acting Apprentice Program Fund • Shaw Festival Guild, Shaw Guild Endowed Fund • The Slaight Family Foundation, The Slaight Family Academy Endowed Fund • Allan Slaight+ & Standard Broadcasting, The Newton Awards • Donald++ & Elaine++ Triggs, Donald & Elaine Triggs Technology Endowment Fund • Michael & Anne Tyler, Michael & Anne Tyler Fund for the Academy through the Victoria Foundation • 1 anonymous gift
In addition, we would like to thank the following who have generously contributed $25,000 or more to the Shaw Festival Endowment Fund and/or Restricted Funds through the Shaw Festival Endowment Foundation. Ron++ & Barbara++ Besse • J.P. Bickell Foundation • John & Nancy Bligh • Estate of Ruth Bolt • Shauneen+ & Michael Bruder • Estate of Penelope Carter • Gary+ & Cathy Comerford • Michael Eagen & Michele Darling+ • Anthony & Shari Fell • Art & Val+ Fleming • David & Amy Fulton • Brenda Gibson • Estate of Lawrence George Hodgett • Rennie & Bill+ Humphries • Estate of Dr Mary Beth Jennings • Lewfam Foundation • Manulife Financial • Estate of John Mappin • Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Foundation • Norman & Marian Robertson Charitable Foundation • Estate of Angela Roland • Gary & Donna Slaight • Maureen+ & Wayne Squibb • Estate of Helen Allen Stacey • Uplands Charitable Foundation • Walker Industries Holdings Limited • Carol Walker & Estate of John Greenhill Walker • Estate of Paul Warun • Barbara+ & Colin+ Watson • Bruce++ & Susan Winter • 2 anonymous gifts
With the participation of the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.
DIRECTED & RESTRICTED FUND GIFTS
INDIVIDUAL GIFTS ($1000+) The 1916 Foundation • Philip Akin++ • Marilyn++ & Charles ++ Baillie • Charles Balbach++ • Lorne++ & Rosemary Barclay • Peggy Bell, in memory of Ken Bell • Sylvia Bennett++ • Sheila Brown++ & Doug Guzman • Robin Campbell++ & Peter Jewett++ • Alberta G. Cefis ++ & Ilio Santilli++ • DeRoy Testamentary Foundation • Elizabeth S. Dipchand++ & Gregory Prekupec • Vivien Dzau+ & Daniel MacIntosh • Richard++ & Darleen Falconer • Kenneth++ & Amy Friedman • Wendy++ & Bruce+++ Gitelman • Mr++ & Mrs+ Anthony R. Graham • Lyle Hall++ • The William & Nona+ Heaslip Foundation • Mary E. Hill++ • Martha+ & Tom++ Hyde • Tim++ & Lisa Johnson • Colleen++ & Brian Johnston • Rebecca++ & Ian++ Joseph • James & Diane++ King • Ronald H. Luczak++ • Paul Madeley, in loving memory of Gayle Stokes • Richard McCoy+ • The Jim Meekison++ & Carolyn Keystone++ Foundation • Gabriel Pascal Memorial Fund • Marilyn Pilkington+ & Wayne Shaw • Tim++ & Frances ++ Price • Gregory Prince++ & Erin O’Brien • Joseph & Jeltje Reid • Corinne ++ & Victor+ Rice • Sam & Robin++ Ridesic • Drs Jolie Ringash & Glen Bandiera++ • J+ & L Rogers Charitable Foundation • Samiha++ & Aseer Sachedina • Ann Savege • Edward++ & Elizabeth++ Simmons • Nancy Smith++ • The Donald++ & Elaine++ Triggs Family Foundation • Barbara Watson+, in memory of Colin Watson+ • Jaime Watt++ & Paul Ferguson • Bruce++ & Susan Winter • 3 anonymous gifts
SPECIAL APPEAL ($600+)
Gifts to our Special Appeal help to ensure future generations can enjoy, learn and benefit from the Shaw Festival’s performances and programs.
Thomas & Linda Beran • Gail & Alick Innes • Ian Orchard & Angela Lange • Richard & Nadine Osborn • Brian & Paddy Parr • In memory of Edna Powers • Robert Purves • Julia & Jerry Yaffee • 1 anonymous gift
PHILIP AKIN BLACK SHOULDERS LEGACY AWARD
This award was established in honour of Canadian Director/Playwright Philip Akin. Gifts to the Philip Akin Black Shoulders Legacy Award are invested by the Shaw Festival Endowment Foundation to support youngin-craft Black Canadian theatre artists through financial support, artistic guidance, and national promotion. Each year, up to five artists are awarded a minimum $5000 prize towards training and opportunities to grow their craft.
LEAD DONORS ($10,000+) Buddies in Bad Times Theatre • Emma Donoghue • Lindy Green & Sam Chaiton • Jefferson Mappin • The Metcalf Foundation • The Musical Stage Company • Andrew++ & Valerie Pringle • Shaw Festival
GIFTS ($500+) Thom Allison • Arts Club Theatre Company • David Auster • Alethea Bakeogeorge • Victoria Barber • Paul Beauchamp • Belfry Theatre • Judith Bowden* & Jeff Cummings* • Theresa Boyle • Cahoots Theatre • Canadian Stage • Centaur Foundation for Performing Arts • Suzanne Cheriton • Derrick Chua • Mitchell Cohen • Steven G Cumyn • David Daniels • Patrick David • Megan Deeks • Cassandra Di Felice • Emma Donoghue • Factory Theatre • Yvonne Fleck • John Goddard • Harold Green Jewish Theatre • Kate Hennig* • Ray Hogg • Robyn Hoja • Astrid Janson • Michael Jones • Pauline Jones • Tamara Jones • Thomas Jones • Koffler Centre • Mitchell Marcus • Leanne Matlow • Racheal McCaig • Bart Nickerson • Nightwood Theatre • Stacey Norton • Obsidian Theatre Board of Directors • Obsidian Theatre Company • Playwrights Canada Press • Kimberley Rampersad* • Luke Reece • Suzy Rodness • Alicia Rose • Amanda Rosenthal • Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre • Rupal Shah • Michael Sinclair • Celia Smith • Dennis Souder & Deborah Bannerman • Soulpepper Theatre • The Stratford Festival • Summerworks • Talk Is Free Theatre • Tarragon Theatre • Theatre Calgary • Theatre Gargantua • The Theatre Centre • Kristen Thomson • Alan & Janet Walker • Ellen Wallace • Lucy White • Young People’s Theatre • Rhonda Zwingerman • 1 anonymous gift
THE DOHERTY-RAND LEGACY CIRCLE
Recognizes generous individuals who commit to future support through bequests or other legacy gifts. Bob & Dorothy Aaron • Mr Doug & Dr Lavonne Adams • Robert G. Anderson & Charles William Tate • Anonymous Buffalo Donors • Callie Archer • Scott & Ruth Aspinall • Rob Ayling • Deanna Baker • Charles Balbach++ • Drs Jolie Ringash & Glen Bandiera++ • Lorne++ & Rosemary Barclay • Patricia & Barrie Barootes
• Laurie Barrett • Joann Bean • Peggy Bell • Thomas & Linda Beran • Stacey Lynn Bilotta • Dr Brenda Birkin
• Ronald James Boone • Norman Bradshaw • James F. Brown++ • Truly Carmichael* & Tim Jennings*++ • Thomas A. Caster • Anne Cattermole Levy • Alberta G. Cefis ++ & Ilio Santilli++ • Dr Kathy Jane Chambery
• Janice Coles • Glenna & Derek Collins • William & Lacey Anne Collins • Barry H. Davidson • Patricia G. Debrusk • Marilyn L. Dickinson • Dr L. Delf Dodge & Mr Timothy M. Dodson • Mr James Duhaime & Dr Heather Hannah • Vivien Dzau+ & Daniel MacIntosh • Andrew Colwell & Richard Ellis • Steven Endicott
• Carol Baggott Forte • Lorna & Walter C. Gates, Jr • John Geller • Mrs Priscilla Gerde • Judy & Peter+ Gill • Wendy++ & Bruce++ Gitelman • Wendy Glazier • Alexander Gluskin & Shauna Sexsmith • Suzanne Gouvernet
• Mr & Mrs David Graper • Pat Graves • Mike Grey • Maryann & Peter Grierson • Lyle Hall++ • Dr Marilyn J. Haring • Laurie+ & Douglas Harley • Donald Harrington • Brian Harrison & Daryl Novak • Ellen L. Hawman • Suzanne Hébert+ • Pamela++ & Robert Heilman • Mary E. Hill++ • Lauri & Jean Hiivala • Susan A. Howard • Hunter Green Trust • Robin Campbell++ & Peter Jewett++ • Colleen++ & Brian Johnston • Ron & Nancy Johnston • Steve Johnston & Ron Price-Jones • Rebecca++ & Ian++ Joseph • Douglas Kahn • Karen & Howard Kaplan • James & Diane++ King • Tom & Barb Kuby • Tammy Laber • Dr & Mrs Richard V. Lee • Larry Lubin • Ronald H. Luczak++ • R. Susan MacIntyre • Joanna Manning • Dennis & Bernadette Martin • Gail Martin • Dr Donald McCreary • Mary I. McLeod Foundation • Sylvia M. McPhee • Mrs Stephanie Meredith • Cindy Mewhinney* • Paul & Karen Munninghoff • Christopher Newton* • Brian & Paddy Parr • Robin Pitcher • Tim++ & Frances++ Price • Sam & Robin++ Ridesic • Margaret A. Riggin • Patricia C. & Forrest H. Riordan • Thomas R. Roese & William H. Frank • Joy Rogers • Larry J. Santon • Manfred & Phyllis Schaefer • Sabine & Jochen Schleese • Nancy Smith++ • Wendy & Wayne Smith • Elizabeth A. Stirling • John & Patricia Stocker • Ken Stowe & Nita Farmer • Scott Sunderland • H. Allen & Valerie R. Swanson • Estate of Douglas Elton Tallon • Lynda & Stephen Tepperman • Elizabeth Terry • Merilyn & Jim Thompson • The Donald++ & Elaine++ Triggs Family Foundation • Peter & Marie Van Der Gulik • Ian Waldron & Tim Redmann • Carolyn J. Warner • In memory of Sandra Louise Warun • Harriet 'Sis' Bunting Weld+ • Philip & Kimberley* White • Jim Whitehead • Deborah & Grant Williams • 51 anonymous gifts
TRIBUTES & IN MEMORIAM GIFTS
GIFTS RECEIVED IN MEMORY OF William Bennett • Marshall Berman • Edgar Cowan • Noah Cowan • George Dembroski • David Dillon • Joseph Francis Earls • William French • Patti Fox • Jack Hahn • Nona Macdonald Heaslip + • Peter Herrndorf • Colleen Diana Howard • Joan Louise Clark Jarvis • Elspeth Johnson • Don & Helen Johnston • Matilde Kaip • David Kent • Norbert Lapczynski • Christopher Li Greci • Nancy Lou Alexandra Lofft •
Gary Manning • Allen Mervin • Dick O'Connor • David Owens • Oliver Owens • Landon Mackenzie Pearson • Edna Powers • Bill Rankin • Joan & George Reynolds • John A. Rhind • Victor Rice+ • Keith Salmon • David Silcox • Glenna & Charles Sloan • Gayle Stokes • James Michael Taylor • Colin Watson+ • Paxton Whitehead
GIFTS RECEIVED IN HONOUR OF Samara Ball*, Senior Box Office Representative • Tim Carroll*++ • Cast & Crew of Fairview (Canadian Stage) • Shaw Embedded Artists • Mary Mizen++ & The Shaw Guild • Not Ordinary Traveling Ladies • Our Grandchildren (Brad & Lorraine Derrick) • Shaw Props Department • Harriet Stairs • Theatre Lovers & Fans of Damien Atkins* • Kim White*
DONATIONS IN KIND ($1000+) Robert & Linda Baines • Ms Erica Bartel • Elizabeth Molson, in memory of Gerda Molson • Mr John Seibel
FOUNDATIONS
James A. Burton & Family Foundation • Cullen Foundation • DeRoy Testamentary Foundation • Donner Canadian Foundation • Elcan Ridge Foundation, in memory of Elspeth Johnson • Fleming Foundation • The Joan & Clifford Hatch Foundation • Humeniuk Foundation • Jackman Foundation • The Henry White Kinnear Foundation • The Lawrason Foundation • The McLean Foundation • Mary I. McLeod Foundation • The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Foundation • George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation • Philip & Berthe Morton Foundation • Niagara Community Foundation • Roach Family Foundation • The Slaight Family Foundation • Dorothy Strelsin Foundation • 3 anonymous gifts
CORPORATE
THEATRE & PRODUCTION SPONSORS 124 on Queen Hotel & Spa • BMO Financial Group • Burgundy Asset Management Ltd • Hummel Properties Inc • Paradigm Capital Inc • The Shaw Guild • TD Bank Group
PROGRAM SUPPORTERS CIBC • Critelli’s Fine Furniture • Hodgson Russ LLP • Holiday Inn Express & Staybridge Suites Niagara-on-the-Lake • Niagara Falls Bridge Commission • RBC Foundation and the RBC Emerging Artists • Rich’s • Riverview Cellars Estate Winery • Scotiabank • Spirit in Niagara – Small Batch Distillers • Sun Life • Vintage Hotels
MEDIA, PRODUCT & IN-KIND SUPPORT Classical 96.3 • Hummel Properties Inc • Jackson-Triggs Estate Winery • Navigator Ltd • Niagara Airbus • Peller Estates Winery & Restaurant • Toronto Star • Trius Winery & Restaurant • Riverbend Inn & Vineyard • Zoomer Radio
PERFORMANCE HOSTS & BUSINESS MEMBERS Allstream • Cenovus Energy • Irish Design • It’s All Fun & Games • Lumsden McCormick CPAs • Niagara Holiday Rentals • Procor Limited • The Woodbridge Company Limited • 1 anonymous gift
VOLUNTEER COMMITTEES
Special thanks to the 400+ volunteers who contribute more than 15,000 hours to this Festival – without their support, many of our programs and events would not be possible.
THE SHAW GUILD Mary Mizen++ , President • Alan Walker+ , Past President The Shaw Guild is a large group of volunteers who support and promote the Shaw Festival. They are involved in many activities including greeting patrons, taking tickets, leading backstage tours, beautifying the theatre gardens, running successful fundraising events, and building awareness and engagement for The Shaw. Collectively, they donate more than 15,000 volunteer hours each year.
